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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 17, 1996Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1996, 2:55 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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
Jun 17, 1996, 2:55 PM CDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1996, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 171956
TORMKE
WIC021-172045-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
255 PM CDT MON JUN 17 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY
 
 
AT 250 PM SEVERAL BARNS WERE REPORTED DOWN IN THE FAR SOUTHEAST
PART OF SAUK COUNTY.  FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE ALSO REPORTED.  THESE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH INTO WESTERN COUMBIA COUNTY.
 
DOPPLER RADAR ALSO INDICATED SOME ROTATION IN THESE CLOUDS.
 
THE TOWN OF OKEE IS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS.
 
GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!
HENTZ
 
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 16, 9:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk62 min
Jun 17, 1:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXRock39 min
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia, Dane, Sauk3 hr
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXGreen, Rock3 hr
Jun 17, 3:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXIowa, Lafayette3 hr
Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk2 hr
Jun 17, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk2 hr
Jun 17, 2:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXSauk29 min
Jun 17, 4:07 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXColumbia2 hr
Jun 17, 4:46 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXSauk119 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.