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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 8, 1996Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 9:51 AM CDT for Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 8, 1996, 9:51 AM CDT (14:51 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1996, 10:55 AM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:52 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
Jul 8, 10:30 AM CDTThunderstorm WindArgyle, 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 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1996-07-08Temperature 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1996-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2783 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 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 081454
SVRMKE
WIC049-065-081555-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
951 AM CDT MON JUL 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1055 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN IOWA COUNTY
   ...EASTERN LAFAYETTE COUNTY


 
AT 948 AM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY
MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 36 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF MADISON
OR 1 MILE WEST OF WALDWICK MOVING EAST AT 28 MPH.

THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
 WALDWICK                 BY 952 AM CDT
 HOLLANDALE               BY 10*03 AM CDT
 LAMONT                   BY 1009 AM CDT
 ARGYLE                   BY 1017 AM CDT

DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

BROWNING

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 10:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDane, Green69 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.