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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 5, 1996Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 5:15 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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.

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

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, 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, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSheboygan61 min
Aug 5, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXIowa, Sauk64 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.