Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 7:44 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min. 4 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 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, 8:03 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jun 29, 8:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Beaver Dam, WI | |
| Jun 29, 8:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Fond Du Lac, WI | |
| Jun 29, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lomira, 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, 0.7 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 300045 SVRMKE WIC027-039-300130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 744 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY ...DODGE COUNTY AT 745 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST EAST OF OSHKOSH EXTENDING SOUTHWEST THROUGH NORTHWEST DODGE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF BEAVER DAM...WAUPON...MAYVILLE AND HORICON. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDxS. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. COLLAR/DAVIS
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, 7:21 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, 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
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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.