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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 5, 1996Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 5:04 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1996, 6:05 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 052204
SVRMKE
WIC117-052305-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
504 PM CDT MON AUG 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...SHEBOYGAN COUNTY

 
AT 500 PM... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO WESTERN SHEBOYGAN
COUNTY.  THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL HIT THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY THE HARDEST.


THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

HENTZ/MEADE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Sauk57 min
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, 5:11 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.