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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 29, 1996Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 7:07 PM CDT for Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports 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 29, 1996, 7:07 PM CDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Marquette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 29, 7:10 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Westfield, WI
Jun 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Brooks, 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.3
Supercell composite: 12.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 300008
SVRMKE
WIC077-300100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
707 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...MARQUETTE COUNTY
 
AT 705 PM... DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING
WINDS APPROACHING MARQUETTE COUNTY FROM THE WEST.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES
OF WESTFIELD... LAWRENCE... OXFORD... ENDEAVOR... GERMANIA...
MONTELLO... AND BRIGGSVILLE BY 8 PM.
 
GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!  A TORNADO
WATCH IS IN EFFECT.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
MEADE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green Lake	54 min
Jun 29, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	65 min
Jun 29, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac	46 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dane	45 min
Jun 29, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	46 min
Jun 29, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green	37 min

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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.