Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 1996, 2:25 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 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 22, 1996, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1996, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dane County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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 22, 2:30 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Madison, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 221926 SVRMKE WIC025-222025- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 225 PM CDT MON JUL 22 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 325 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...DANE COUNTY AT 221 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC 2 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MADISON OR IN THE VICINITY OF SHOREWOOD HILLS MOVING EAST AT 46 MPH. HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS WAS REPORTED ON THE FAR WEST SIDE OF MADISON. THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR... MADISON BY 225 PM CDT MAPLE BLUFF BY 229 PM CDT MONONA BY 231 PM CDT LAKEVIEW BY 232 PM CDT MARXVILLE BY 234 PM CDT MC FARLAND BY 235 PM CDT BURKE BY 235 PM CDT MT VERNON BY 236 PM CDT COTTAGE GROVE BY 239 PM CDT SUN PRAIRIE BY 241 PM CDT STOUGHTON BY 243 PM CDT DEANSVILLE BY 247 PM CDT DEERFIELD BY 248 PM CDT MARSHALL B<Y 250 PM CDT ROCKDALE BY 252 PM CDT LONDON BY 252 PM CDT THIS IS DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EISE/HENTZ &
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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.