{"id":41526,"date":"2021-07-18T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=41526"},"modified":"2024-07-18T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T21:18:09","slug":"25th-anniversary-of-the-oakfield-wisconsin-f5-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/41526","title":{"rendered":"The 1996 Oakfield, Wisconsin F5 tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An F5 tornado struck the village of Oakfield, Wisconsin late in the day on 18 July 1996 (NWS Milwaukee story<\/strong><\/a>). An animation of GOES-8 (GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of supercell thunderstorms as they moved east-southeastward across the area. Oakfield is located just southwest of Fond du Lac (KFLD), and is denoted by the yellow ‘+’ symbol on the images. Overshooting tops were evident on these thunderstorms.<\/p>\n

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GOES-8 Visible images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>The corresponding GOES-8 Infrared Window images (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures as cold as -63.6\u00baC (darker shades of red)<\/em> at 2345 UTC<\/strong><\/a>, which was approximately 30 minutes prior to the tornado moving through Oakfield (the GOES-8 imager<\/strong><\/a> instrument was actually scanning the Oakfield area at 2348 UTC).<\/p>\n

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GOES-8 Infrared images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>On a larger-scale view of GOES-8 Water Vapor images (below)<\/strong><\/em>, a sharp gradient of warm-to-cool brightness temperature — orange\/yellow to blue enhancement, portraying the gradient of dry air to moist air — highlighted the presence of a middle-tropospheric jet streak that was moving southeastward across the state.<\/p>\n

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GOES-8 Water Vapor images [click to play animation | MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>Examples of Derived Product Images from the GOES-8 Sounder can be seen here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An F5 tornado struck the village of Oakfield, Wisconsin late in the day on 18 July 1996 (NWS Milwaukee story). An animation of GOES-8 (GOES-East) Visible images (below) showed the development of supercell thunderstorms as they moved east-southeastward across the area. Oakfield is located just southwest of Fond du Lac (KFLD), and is denoted by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":41577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,61,41,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-sounder","category-goes-8","category-historical","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41526"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60373,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41526\/revisions\/60373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}