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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 16, 1996Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1996, 9:43 PM CDT (02:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1996, 10:45 PM CDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 189 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock39 min
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Sauk3 hr
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXGreen, Rock3 hr
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette3 hr
Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk2 hr
Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk2 hr
Jun 17, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXSauk29 min
Jun 17, 2:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXColumbia50 min
Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia2 hr
Jun 17, 4:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk119 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.