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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI

April 19, 1996Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min. 4 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: Apr 19, 1996, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired: Apr 20, 1996, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:56 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
Apr 19, 11:04 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Twin Lakes, WI
Apr 19, 11:22 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pleasant Prairie, WI
Apr 19, 11:26 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Burlington, WI
Apr 19, 11:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Racine, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 205 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 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 200354
SVRMKE
LMZ530-WIC059-101-WIZ528-529-200500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1052 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...RACINE COUNTY
   ...KENOSHA COUNTY

INCLUDING THE ADJOINING WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE EASTWARD INTO KENOSHA AND
RACINE COUNTIES BY 11 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY
WITH THIS LINE OF STORMS.

STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

EISE/BROWNING

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

Local storm report, Apr 19, 10:31 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1030 PM CDT FRI APR 19 1996

TIME CDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....|

945  PM   BETWEEN BRODHEAD/JUDA     WI   GOLF BALL HAIL.
04/19/96  GREEN

1000 PM   BELOIT                    WI   GOLF BALL HAIL.
04/19/96  ROCK

JDH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Green, Rock	57 min
Apr 19, 10:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Walworth	58 min
Apr 19, 10:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Rock	40 min

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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.