Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1986, 7:52 PM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1986, 7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1986, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vilas 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 2385 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1275 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 050052 SVRMKE WIC125-050130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 752 PM CDT FRI JUL 4 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...VILAS AT 745 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE VILAS/ONEIDA COUNTY LINE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM IS MOVING TOWARD THE EAGLE RIVER AREA OF VILAS COUNTY OR 61 MILES NORTH NORTHEAST OF WAUSAU. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. TORNADOES CAN ALSO DEVELOP FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. TZ
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, Jul 4, 5:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE, WI 556 PM CDT FRI JUL 04 1986 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS ARE GROWING IN TAYLOR COUNTY AND EXTEND BACK TOWARDS EAU CLAIRE ..IN EAU CLAIRE COUNTY. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO THE EAST NORTH- EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN..ESPECIALLY IN TAYLOR CHIPPEWA AND EAU CLAIRE COUNTIES..SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR THE 1APPROACH OF THESE STORMS. HEAVY RAIN..HAIL..GUSTY WINDS..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE TO THE EAST. MORRIS
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 6:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE, WI
640 PM CDT FRI JUL 04 1986
...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN...
AT 635 PM CDT WEATHER RADARS INDICATED RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN WISCONSIN.
THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RHINELANDER
NEAR THE MONICO AREA. THIS STORMS IS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND
WILL BE ENTERING WESTERN FOREST COUNTY AND THE CRANDON AREA BY 700 PM
CDT.
STRONG WINDS...HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE QUITE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
AND OTHER THUNDERSTORMS PRESENTLY OCCURING OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN.
PERSONS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR THE APPROACH OF THESEY STORMS
AS THEY MAY ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 333 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM THIS
SATURDAY MORNING FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN.
TZThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Taylor | 57 min |
| Jul 4, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Vilas | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Oneida | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Oneida | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Oneida | 37 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.