Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 4:12 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min. 2 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
- Aug 5, 1996, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 4:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Randolph, WI | |
| Aug 5, 4:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Fond Du Lac, 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1039 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 052111 SVRMKE WIC027-039-052215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 412 PM CDT MON AUG 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY ...DODGE COUNTY AT 408 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR BERLIN IN NORTHEAST GREEN LAKE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO THE MADISON AREA. THIS LINE OF SEVERE STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF FOND DU LAC... RIPON... OAKFIELD... AND WAUPAN IN FOND DU LAC COUNTY BETWEEN 420 AND 500 PM. IN DODGE COUNTY THE CITIES OF BEAVER DAM... FOX LAKE... WATERTOWN... AND HORICON WILL BE AFFECTED BETWEEN 420 AND 500 PM. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROBM WINDOWS. HENTZ/KAPELA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dane | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa, Sauk | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 45 min |
| Aug 5, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dane | 25 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.