Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 7:21 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Green Lake County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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, 7:29 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Marquette, WI | |
| Jun 29, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Berlin, 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, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 300022 SVRMKE WIC047-300115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 721 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...GREEN LAKE COUNTY AT 720 PM... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS WERE APPROACHING GREEN LAKE COUNTY FROM THE WEST. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF PRINCETON... BERLIN... GREEN LAKE... MARQUETTE... DALTON... AND MANCHESTER. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE LIKELY. 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, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 53 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.