Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 10:19 PM CDT for Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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 16, 1997, 10:19 PM CDT (03:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1997, 11:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marquette County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:23 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 536 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2104 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 170320 RRA SVRMKE WIC077-170420- BULLETIN - IMMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1019 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MARQUETTE COUNTY - CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1120 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WESTFIELD BY 1037 PM CDT HARRISVILLE BY 1047 PM CDT PACKWAUKEE BY 1052 PM CDT ENDEAVOR BY 1056 PM CDT * AT 1015 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT SULLIVAN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 34 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF OXFORD MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. RADAR INDICATED 1 INCH HAIL. 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. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...THUND~ERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. TH
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 16, 10:17 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1017 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM MARYTOWN WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 FOND DU LAC LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN
0613 PM GREEN LAKE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN
0625 PM PRINCETON WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0625 PM NESHKORO WI .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 MARQUETTE
0625 PM ELKHART LAKE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 SHEBOYGAN SHERIFF ESTIMATED WIND
GUSTS OF 70 TO 80 MPH
ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF
COUNTY. LARGE TREES ALSO
TOPPLED.
0635 PM NESHKORO WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MARQUETTE LARGE TREES TOPPLED.
0640 PM PRINCETON WI 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE
0700 PM 2 NW WAUPAN WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 FOND DU LAC LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0730 PM PRINCETON WI 1 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE
0735 PM 6 NNE WESTFIELD WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MARQUETTE LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0842 PM MILWAUKEE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MILWAUKEE LARGE TREE LIMBS
KNOCKED DOWN DUE TO
HIGH WINDS NEAR
MITCHELL FIELD.
HAM RADIO REPORT.
KAPELALocal storm report, Jul 16, 10:18 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1017 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0610 PM MARYTOWN WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 FOND DU LAC LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN
0613 PM GREEN LAKE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN
0625 PM PRINCETON WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0625 PM NESHKORO WI .75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 MARQUETTE
0625 PM ELKHART LAKE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 SHEBOYGAN SHERIFF ESTIMATED WIND
GUSTS OF 70 TO 80 MPH
ACROSS NORTHERN PART OF
COUNTY. LARGE TREES ALSO
TOPPLED.
0635 PM NESHKORO WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MARQUETTE LARGE TREES TOPPLED.
0640 PM PRINCETON WI 1.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE
0700 PM 2 NW WAUPAN WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 FOND DU LAC LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0730 PM PRINCETON WI 1 INCH HAIL
07/16/97 GREEN LAKE
0735 PM 6 NNE WESTFIELD WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MARQUETTE LARGE TREES TOPPLED
0842 PM MILWAUKEE WI WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97 MILWAUKEE LARGE TREE LIMBS
KNOCKEDn DOWN DUE TO
HIGH WINDS NEAR
MITCHELL FIELD.
HAM RADIO REPORT.
KAPELAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee, Waukesha | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.