Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1986, 3:25 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1986, 3:25 PM CDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1986, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waushara County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -387 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 911 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSN 112027 SVRMSN WIC137-109-202100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING..CORRECTION FOR REMOVAL OF ST CROIX NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 325 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...NORTHWEST WAUSHARA AT 305 PM CDT PUBLIC REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AT BIG FLATTS IN NORTHERN ADAMS COUNTY OR ABOUT 75 MILES NORTH-NORTHWEST OF MADISON. THE THUNDERSTORM THAT CONTAINED THE HAIL MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. TORNADOES CAN ALSO DEVELOP FROM SEVERE THUNNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. ADDISON
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
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 2:32 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 225 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 220 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHWEST WAUPACA COUNTY..NORTHERN GREEN LAKE COUNTY NEAR BERLIN.. AND WESTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF RIPON. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 40 MPH. ONE STORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WAUPACA COUNTY BETWEEN 220 PM AND 320 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND THE OTHER TWO STORMS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WINNEBAGO COUNTY BETWEEN 220 PM AND 320 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..HAIL..AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN! EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 800 PM CDT THIS EVENING. BB
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 3:10 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 300 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 255 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY..SOUTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY..AND SOUTHERN OUTAGAMIE COUNTY. MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT RIPON..WHICH IS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSHKOSH AT 250 PM CDT. PEA SIZE HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WAS REPORTED AT WINNECONNE WHICH IS ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. VERY HEAVY RAINFALL..HAIL..STRONG GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH WINNEBAGO..>WAUPACA..AND OUTAGAMIE COUNTIES BETWEEN 300 PM AND 400 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. BB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara | 39 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986
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.