Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1986, 3:31 PM CDT for Florence County, Forest County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1986, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1986, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 1209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 242031 SVRMKE WIC037-041-085-125-242130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 331 PM CDT THU JUL 24 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...FLORENCE...FOREST...ONEIDA AND VILAS AT 315 A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR LAKE GERMAIN IN SOUTHERN VIALS COUNTY. THE TORNADO THEN LIFTED AND IS NO LONGER REPORTED ON THE GROUND. A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EXTREME EASTERN VILAS COUNTY TO NEAR RHINELANDER. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER. THE STROMS WILL BE OUT OF VILAS COUNTY BY 345 TO 4 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. TORNADOES CAN ALSO DEVELOP FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. 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, Jul 24, 1:46 PM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 145 PM CDT THU JULY 24 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS NORTHWEST WISCONSIN... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE LINE EXTENDS FROM IRONWOOD MICHIGAN TO ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST STORMS ARE BETWEEN PARK FALLS IN NORTHERN PRICE COUNTY...70 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU...AND RICE LAKE IN EASTERN BARRON COUNTY...40 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. MOVEMENT OF THE ENTIRE LINE OF STORMS WERE TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF DSTORMS AND GENERALLY EVERYONE IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MORRIS
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:13 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 310 PM CDT THU JULY 24 1986 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN WISCONSIN... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN AND ARE NOW MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE LINE EXTENDS FROM JUST EAST OF LAC DU FLAMBEAU IN SOUTHWEST VILAS COUNTY...65 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU TO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF EAU CLAIRE. MOVEMENT OF THE ENTIRE LINE OF STORMS WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS IN ONIEDA COUNTY REPORTED WINDS GUSTING TO 45 MILES AN HOUR IN MINOCQUA...56 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU...SHORTLY BEFORE 3 PM CDT AS ONE OF THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE A CONTINUING POSSIBILITY WITH THESE STORMS. < PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD KEEP AN EYE TO THE SKY FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. MORRIS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Oneida, Vilas | 59 min |
| Jul 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Langlade, Marathon | 41 min |
| Jul 24, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Clark, Wood | 53 min |
| Jul 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 55 min |
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Washington | 60 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.