Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1996, 9:41 PM CDT for Ozaukee County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1996, 9:41 PM CDT (02:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ozaukee County, WI, Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
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, Jul 18, 6:16 PM CDT, 3 hours 25 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, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Sheboygan | 55 min |
| 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.