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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 18, 1996Dodge County, Washington County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1996, 7:23 PM CDT for Dodge County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 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, 7:23 PM CDT (00:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1996, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dodge County, WI, Washington County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 190025
TORMKE
WIC027-131-190125-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...NORTHEASTERN CORNER OF DODGE COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY


 
AT 720 PM CDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN
DOPPLER RADAR 10 MILES SOUTH OF FOND DU LAC OR 5 MILES NORTH
NORTHWEST OF LOMIRA MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WERE REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN FOND DU LAC
COUNTY.

THIS TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
 LOMIRA                   BY 727 PM CDT
 KNOWLES                  BY 728 PM CDT
 BROWNSVILLE              BY 730 PM CDT
 THERESA                  BY 734 PM CDT

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

HENTZ/MEADE
 

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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, 7:35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.