Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1986, 7:21 PM CDT for Forest County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1986, 7:21 PM CDT (00:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1986, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1271 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 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 260021 SVRMKE WIC041-260115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 721 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...FOREST AT 710..RADAR INDICATED A POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING FOREST COUNTY 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CONOVER..OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF RHINELANDER. ANOTHER WAS JUST SOUTH OF LONG LAKE.. ABOUT 20 MILES WEST-SOUTHWEST OF IRON MOUNTAIN MICHIGAN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. STORMS SHOULD PASS BETWEEN CRANDOM AND LONG LAKE. AN UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS RECEIVED FROM THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF VILAS COUNTY AT 708 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY TRIGGER FLASH FLOODING IN bLOW LYING OR URBAN AREAS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SAFE SHELTER. JOHNSTON
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 25, 5:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE, WI 515 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1986 AT 510 PM..WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN WISCONSIN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THESE STORMS STRETCHED FROM NEAR IRON MOUNTAIN MICHIGAN SOUTHWESTWARD TO ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY TO IRMA IN LINCOLN COUNTY..ABOUT 30 MILES NORTH AT WAUSAU. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST NEAR 40 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. BUT REPORTS OF FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN HAVE BEEN RECEIVED FROM AREAS IN THEIR PATH. THE LARGEST AND STRONGEST STORM APPEARS TO BE OVER SOUTHERN FLORENCE COUNTY ABOUT 10 TO 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF IRON MOUNTAIN. IT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME LOCAL FLOODING. SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE IN FLORENCE COUNTY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE POTENTIAL OF THIS STORM AND TAKE PROPER PRECAUTIONS. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 6:48 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE, WI 635 PM CDT WED JUN 25 1986 ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN WISCONSIN... AT 630 PM..WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH VILAS AND FOREST COUNTIES NEAR OR JUST SOUTH OF THE PATH ANOTHER BATCH OF STORMS FOLLOWED EARLIER. THE NEW BAND EXTENDED FROM NEAR PHELPS AND CONOVER IN EASTERN VILAS COUNTY TO ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF LAONA IN FOREST COUNTY..HEADED TOWARD WESTERN MARINETTE COUNTY. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. BUT HEAVY RAINS FROM THESE NEW STORMS ADDED TO THE RAIN THAT FELL EARLIER MAY CAUSE SOME LOCAL FLOODING. SMALL HAIL..GUSTY WINDS..AND FREQUENT JLIGHTNING ARE ALSO POSSIBLE..ALTHOUGH NO SUCH REPORTS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED AS YET. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD CONTINUE TO BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. JOHNSTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage, Wood | 50 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.