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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 5, 1996Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 2:43 PM CDT for Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 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
Aug 5, 1996, 2:43 PM CDT (19:43 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1996, 3:40 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Iowa County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 1996-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 279 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 128 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
279 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
159 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 3:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXColumbia, Dane61 min
Aug 5, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake51 min
Aug 5, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac63 min
Aug 5, 4:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXJefferson50 min
Aug 5, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSheboygan61 min
Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Sauk64 min
Aug 5, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXDodge, Fond du Lac45 min
Aug 5, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXDane25 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.