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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 9:23 PM CDT for Green County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 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, 9:23 PM CDT (02:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Green County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:22 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 9:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Monroe, WI | |
| Jun 29, 9:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Albany, 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1631 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1420 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 8:25 PM CDT, 58 minutes before
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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, 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 |
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.