Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 92, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 5:26 PM CST for Dodge County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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
- Oct 29, 1996, 5:26 PM CST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 1996, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dodge County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1440 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 299 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 292327 RRA SVRMKE WIC105-027-055-127-300000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 526 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH WISCONSIN ...ROCK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...DODGE COUNTY...JEFFERSON COUNTY...WALWORTH COUNTY AT 525 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG DAMAGING WINDS TO 65 MPH. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY...EASTERN DANE COUNTY TO NEAR JANESVILLE IN ROCK COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. PERSONS IN DODGE...JEFFERSON...ROCK AND WALWORTH COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS APPROCHING LINE OF STORMS AND TAKE SHELTER. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECTX. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 4:00 PM CST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
WIZALL-310000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 400 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 ...COLD WINTER TYPE WEATHER HEADING TOWARD WISCONSIN... AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY WILL BRING A TASTE OF WINTER WEATHER TO WISCONSIN BY WEDNESDAY. MUCH COLDER AIR ON VERY STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 40 MPH WILL BE USHERED INTO THE STATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...WITH THE COLDEST AIR BEING FELT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST. ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...AFTER WEDNESDAY MORNING HIGHS IN THE 30S... NEARLY STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF DAY. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S BY WEDNESDAY EVENING...AND COMBINED WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH...WIND CHILLS RANGING FROM ZERO TO 20 BELOW ZERO CAN BE EXPECTED. FOR THE REST OF WISCONSIN...TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEARLY STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING IN THE AFTERNOON FROM HIGHS IN THE 40S TO AROUND 50. HOWEVER WEDNESDAY NIGHT...TEMPERATURES DROPPING IN THE 20S COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILLS TO NEAR ZERO. NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES MAY BE SET ACROSS PARTS OF WISCONSIN BY THURSDAY MORNING. BE PREPARD FOR THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON...SO FAR. HELMAN/MEADE
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 4:09 PM CST, 1 hour 17 minutes before
WIZALL-310000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 400 PM CST TUE OCT 29 1996 ...COLD WINTER TYPE WEATHER HEADING TOWARD WISCONSIN... AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES REGION TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY WILL BRING A TASTE OF WINTER WEATHER TO WISCONSIN BY WEDNESDAY. MUCH COLDER AIR ON VERY STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 40 MPH WILL BE USHERED INTO THE STATE WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY...WITH THE COLDEST AIR BEING FELT ACROSS THE NORTHWEST. ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...AFTER WEDNESDAY MORNING HIGHS IN THE 30S... NEARLY STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FOR THE REST OF DAY. TEMPERATURES ARE FORECAST TO DROP INTO THE TEENS TO LOWER 20S BY WEDNESDAY EVENING...AND COMBINED WITH WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH...WIND CHILLS RANGING FROM ZERO TO 20 BELOW ZERO CAN BE EXPECTED. FOR THE REST OF WISCONSIN...TEMPERATURES WILL BE NEARLY STEADY OR SLOWLY FALLING IN THE AFTERNOON FROM HIGHS IN THE 40S TO AROUND 50. HOWEVER WEDNESDAY NIGHT...TEMPERATURES DROPPING IN THE 20S COMBINED WITH NORTHWEST WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WILL PRODUCE WIND CHILLS TO NEAR ZERO. NEW RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES MAY BE SET ACROSS PAFRTS OF WISCONSIN BY THURSDAY MORNING. BE PREPARD FOR THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON...SO FAR. HELMAN/MEADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Iowa | 24 min |
| Oct 29, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lafayette | 20 min |
| Oct 29, 4:04 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane | 26 min |
| Oct 29, 4:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 37 min |
| Oct 29, 4:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 32 min |
| Oct 29, 4:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 35 min |
| Oct 29, 4:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Oct 29, 4:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 5:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine | 27 min |
| Oct 29, 5:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 23 min |
| Oct 29, 5:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 31 min |
| Oct 29, 5:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Rock, Walworth | 34 min |
| Oct 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 40 min |
| Oct 29, 5:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.