Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1986, 6:46 PM CDT for Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1986, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1986, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Racine 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 848 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 19, 5:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 530 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...PART OF TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 396 IS BEING CANCELLED... AT 525 PM..WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM EXTREME NORTHERN OZAUKEE COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF SHEBOYGAN SOUTHWESTWARD TO NEAR JANESVILLE. IT APPEARS THAT THE TORNADO THREAT HAS ENDED TO THE NORTH OF THE LINE. SO THE WATCH NOW INCLUDES ONLY A SMALL AREA OF EXTREME SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. COUNTIES REMAINING IN THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING.......... WASHINGTON..OZAUKEE..WAUKESHA..MILWAUKEE..ROCK..WALWORTH..RACINE.. AND KENOSHA. THE LINE OF STRONG STORMS CONTINUES MOVING EASTWARD AROUND 20 MPH THROUGH THESE COUNTIES. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:00 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 600 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF MILWAUKEE... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF MILWAUKEE ACROSS NORTHERN RACINE COUNTY BACK TO WALWORTH COUNTY JUST NORTH OF DELAVAN. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE NEAR THE LAKE BY RACINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF ROCKFORD..JUST SOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN BORDER. PEOPLE IN FAR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL VERY HEAVY RAINS INTENSE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONIN UNTIL 10 MPH. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:04 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 600 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAINLY SOUTH OF MILWAUKEE... AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH AND EAST OF MILWAUKEE ACROSS NORTHERN RACINE COUNTY BACK TO WALWORTH COUNTY JUST NORTH OF DELAVAN. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE NEAR THE LAKE BY RACINE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF ROCKFORD..JUST SOUTH OF THE WISCONSIN BORDER. PEOPLE IN FAR SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HAIL VERY HEAVY RAINS INTENSE LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONIN UNTIL 10 PM. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:14 PM CDT, 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 605 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR WASHINGTON AND OZAUKEE COUNTIES... THE LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER IS NOW OVER THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WISCONSIN. THE TORNADO THREAT APPEARS TO HAVE ENDED IN WASHINGTON AND OZAUKEE COUNTIES. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE STILL UNDER THE TORNADO WATCH......... WAUKESHA..MILWAUKEE..RACINE.. KENOSHA..WALWORTH..AND ROCK. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:24 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 620 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...TORNADO WATCH CANCELLED FOR MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTIES... THE LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE AREA EARLIER IS NOW APPROACHING THE ILLINOIS BORDER. THE TORNADO THREAT APPEARS TO HAVE ENDED IN MILWAUKEE AND WAUKESHA COUNTIES. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE STILL UNDER A TORNADO WATCH......... RACINE..KENOSHA..WALWORTH..AND ROCK. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Jul 19, 6:32 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 630 PM CDT SAT JUL 19 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RACINE AREA... AT 630 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN THE RACINE AREA. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WIND UP TO 50 MPH AND PEA TO MARBLE SIZED HAIL HAVE BEEN RECEIVED JUST EAST OF RACINE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN SOUTHERN WALWORTH COUNTY NEAR LAKE GENEVA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND 'WILL BE AFFECTING KENOSHA COUNTY BY 7PM. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREEME SOUTHEAST WISCONIN UNTIL 10 PM. PEOPLE IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER. HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Taylor | 56 min |
| Jul 18, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lincoln | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon | 53 min |
| Jul 18, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon, Wood | 54 min |
| Jul 18, 9:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 51 min |
| Jul 19, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha | 62 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.