Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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, 7:15 PM CDT (00:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1996, 7:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:32 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Plymouth, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 190017 TORMKE WIC117-190050- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 715 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...NORTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY AT 713 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOND DU LAC OR NEAR ST ANNA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 39 MPH INTO NORTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ST ANNA BY 717 PM CDT ELKHART LAKE BY 727 PM CDT A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE SHELTER NOW. 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, 7:23 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.