Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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
- Jun 24, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1997, 6:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fond du Lac County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Eden, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 24, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 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
- 1293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1072 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
005 WUUS1 KMKE 242221 RRA SVRMKE WIC039-127-242310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 520 PM CDT TUE JUN 24 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN WALWORTH COUNTY - SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 605 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED FOND DU LAC OAKFIELD ELKHORN WHITEWATER * AT 540 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES WEST OF FOND DU LAC TO 15 MILES WEST OF ELKHORN. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES HAVE BEEN KNOCKED DOWN BY THESE STORMS. EXPECT HEAVY RAINFALL. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DAVIS/JH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marquette | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dane, Rock | 64 min |
| Jun 24, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington, Waukesha | 48 min |
| Jun 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Ozaukee | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 60 min |
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine, Walworth | 61 min |
| Jun 24, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 61 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.