Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1996, 6:09 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 18, 1996, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 6:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green Lake County, WI, Marquette County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Green Lake, WI | |
| Jul 18, 6:29 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Green Lake, 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 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -283 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 548 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 182311 SVRMKE WIC047-077-182355- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 609 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 655 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...NORTHEASTERN MARQUETTE COUNTY ...NORTHERN GREEN LAKE COUNTY AT 605 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 34 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH OR NEAR NESHKORO MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... NESHKORO BY 607 PM CDT PRINCETON BY 619 PM CDT BERLIN BY 628 PM CDT GREEN LAKE BY 630 PM CDT THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. VERY BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ALSO OCCUR. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. EISE/HENTZ/MEADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Green | 5 hr |
| Jul 18, 6:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 41 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.