Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1996, 7:05 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 min. 10 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, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fond du Lac County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:05 PM CDT | Tornado F5 | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Marytown, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:07 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Marytown, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | North Fond Du Lac, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Byron, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:59 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dundee, WI | |
| Jul 18, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Beechwood, 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 2604 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.5
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 190007 SVRMKE WIC039-117-190105- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 705 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY ...SHEBOYGAN COUNTY AT 700 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 9 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC OR 2 MILES NORTHEAST OF LADOGA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 41 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... FOND DU LAC BY 714 PM CDT EDEN BY 720 PM CDT ASHFORD BY 725 PM CDT CAMPBELLSPORT BY 729 PM CDT WAUCOUSTA BY 730 PM CDT THIS STORM SHOULD THEN REACH FAR SOUTHWEST SHEBOYGAN COUNTY BY 730 PM. ANOTHER SEVERE STORM TO THE NORTH SHOULD REACH NORTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY BY 730 PM. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS WITH THIS STORM. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. HENTZ/MEADE
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, Jul 18, 6:16 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
WIZ008>009-016>017-027>029-033>034-041-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 615 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE TORNADO WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT HAS BEEN CANCELLE6D IN MUCH OF WESTERN WISCONSIN. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED WEST OF A LINE FROM PRICE COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO LA CROSSE COUNTY. BROWNING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 50 min |
| Jul 18, 7:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 8:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington | 44 min |
| Jul 18, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 47 min |
| Jul 18, 9:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 34 min |
| Jul 18, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 49 min |
| Jul 18, 10:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 36 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.