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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 18, 1996Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1996, 8:03 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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: Jul 18, 1996, 8:03 PM CDT (01:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1996, 8:50 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Columbia County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 190105
TORMKE
WIC021-190150-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
803 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 850 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...COLUMBIA COUNTY

 
AT 802 PM CDT...A DEVELOPING TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY
MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 32 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF MADISON
OR IN THE VICINITY OF PARDEEVILLE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 29 MPH.

THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
 RIO                      BY 814 PM CDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

HENTZ/MEADE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	55 min
Jul 18, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	31 min
Jul 18, 7:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	35 min
Jul 18, 7:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge, Washington	52 min
Jul 18, 7:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac	50 min
Jul 18, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Columbia	63 min
Jul 18, 7:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	44 min
Jul 18, 8:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	45 min
Jul 18, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac, Washington	44 min
Jul 18, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	49 min
Jul 18, 8:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	47 min
Jul 18, 9:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge	34 min
Jul 18, 9:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Washington	60 min
Jul 18, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Waukesha	62 min
Jul 18, 9:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	52 min
Jul 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee, Washington	49 min
Jul 18, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	36 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.