Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 1997, 6:34 PM CDT for Fond du Lac County, Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 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 16, 1997, 6:34 PM CDT (23:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1997, 7:20 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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 16, 6:40 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Princeton, WI | |
| Jul 16, 7:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Waupun, WI | |
| Jul 16, 7:30 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Princeton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2398 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 162335 TORMKE WIC039-047-170020- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 634 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR FOND DU LAC COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN GREEN LAKE COUNTY - CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 720 PM CDT * SOME LOCATION AFFECTED GREEN LAKE BY 645 PM RIPON BY 655 PM ROSENDALE BY 705 PM * AT 630 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AT SULLIVAN INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 18 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF FOND DU LAC OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF ST CLOUD MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN THE BASEMENT OR LOWEST FLOOR AND INNER MOST ROOM OF A BUILDING. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO OUTRUN A TORNADO...CARS CAN BE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. TH/CG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Green Lake, Marquette | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 5:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 59 min |
| Jul 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Washington | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Sauk | 59 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.