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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1996, 8:21 PM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 44 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
- Jul 18, 1996, 8:21 PM CDT (01:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 9:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Washington County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 8:58 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kewaskum, WI | |
| Jul 18, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Rubicon, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 112 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 190123 TORMKE WIC027-039-131-190205- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 821 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 905 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...SOUTHERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY ...DODGE COUNTY ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 815 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN DOPPLER RADAR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC OR 1 MILE WEST OF OAK CENTER MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 39 MPH. ANOTHER POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS NEAR CAMPBELLSPORT MOVING EAST SOUTH EAST. YET ANOTHER TORNADO WAS INDICATED IN COLUMBIA COUNTY SOUTH OF CAMBRIA. THIS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN DODGE COUNTY. THESE TORNADOES WILL AFFECT AREAS IN SOUTHERN FOND DU LAC... DODGE...AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LO~WEST FLOOR. HENTZ/MEADE
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 18, 6:16 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
WIZ008>009-016>017-027>029-033>034-041-190100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 615 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE TORNADO WATCH PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT HAS BEEN CANCELLE6D IN MUCH OF WESTERN WISCONSIN. THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS ENDED WEST OF A LINE FROM PRICE COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO LA CROSSE COUNTY. BROWNING
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, 8:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.