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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 21, 1996Kenosha County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1996, 12:40 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1996, 12:40 PM CDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1996, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Kenosha County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 21, 1:00 PM CDTThunderstorm WindKenosha, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-21Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 211742
SVRMKE
WIC059-WIZ529-211815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1240 PM CDT FRI JUN 21 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...SOUTHEAST KENOSHA COUNTY
 
  AND FOR THE WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN
 
  ...AROUND WINTHROP HARBOR IL
 
AT 1242 PM... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS NEAR 60 MPH OVER NORTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS. THE STORM WAS
NEAR FOX LAKE...WHICH IS 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KENOSHA.
 
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT FAR
SOUTHEAST KENOSHA COUNTY...JUST SOUTH OF THE CITY OF KENOSHA.
 
THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND.  GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!  BOATERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN SHOULD
GET BELOW DECK IMMEDIATELY.
 
MEADE

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.