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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 22, 1996Dane County, Wisconsin

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.

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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 22, 2:30 PM CDTHail 1.75Madison, 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 1996-07-22Temperature 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 1996-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -74 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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.