Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1996, 2:40 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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 19, 1996, 2:40 PM CDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1996, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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 19, 2:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Brookfield, WI | |
| Aug 19, 3:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Milwaukee, 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 343 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 191943 SVRMKE WIC079-089-131-133-192030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 240 PM CDT MON AUG 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...MILWAUKEE COUNTY...OZAUKEE COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY ...EASTERN WAUKESHA COUNTY AT 240 PM... A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM HORICON TO OCONOMOWOC TO WALES TO ELKHORN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF WEST BEND... MENOMONEE FALLS... WAUKESHA... AND MUKWANAGO BY 3 PM. THE STORMS WILL AFFECT MILWAUKEE AND PORT WASHINGTON AREAS BY 315 PM. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. ZAJDEL/MEADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Dodge | 41 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.