Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1996, 7:09 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min. 3 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, 7:09 PM CDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 7:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Hail 2.5 | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Oakfield, WI | |
| Jul 18, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | North Fond Du Lac, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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 190011 TORMKE WIC039-190040- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 709 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 740 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOND DU LAC COUNTY AT 707 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 11 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF FOND DU LAC OR 1 MILE EAST SOUTHEAST OF LADOGA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... OAK CENTER BY 713 PM CDT LAMARTINE BY 714 PM CDT OAKFIELD BY 715 PM CDT SOUTH BYRON BY 722 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, 7:15 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, 8:21 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.