Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1986, 4:35 PM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1986, 4:35 PM CDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1986, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, WI, Wood 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
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 1101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1266 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 KMKE 192135 SVRMKE WIC097-141-192230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 435 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN...PORTAGE AND WOOD WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN THE WISCONIN RAPIDS AREA OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. STRONG WINDS AND HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL ENTER SOUTHWEST PORTAGE COUNTY BY 5 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FRO:M A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY TRIGGER FLASH FLOODING IN LOW LYING OR URBAN AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SAFE SHELTER. HENTZ
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 19, 4:13 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 410 PM CDT THU JUN 19 1986 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 405 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAD DEVELOPED NEAR WISCONSIN RAPIDS.. IN WOOD COUNTY OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH PARTS OF EASTERN WOOD COUNTY AND WESTERN PORTAGE COUNTY THROUGH 510 PM CDT. HEAVY DOWNPOURS..FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES..GUSTY WINDS AND SOME HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FURTHER UPDATES. ^ STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.