Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 5:11 PM CDT for Iowa County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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
- Aug 5, 1996, 5:11 PM CDT (22:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 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 22:13 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 | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dodgeville, 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, 10.2 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 052211 SVRMKE WIC049-111-052315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 511 PM CDT MON AUG 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN ...IOWA COUNTY...SAUK COUNTY AT 510PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHWEST IOWA COUNTY NEAR LONE ROCK. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAINS AS IT MOVES TOWARD THE TOWN OF PLAIN IN SAUK COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WIND. 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.
| 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, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac | 63 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, 5:15 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.