Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1987, 7:12 PM CDT for Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1987, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1987, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Price 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -381 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1604 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 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 110012 SVRMKE WIC099-110100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 712 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...PRICE AT 710 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED OVER EASTERN SAWYER COUNTY NEAR LORETTA OR ABOUT 25 MILESJ TO THE WEST OF PARK FALLS. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER.
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, May 10, 3:37 PM CDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 335 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1987 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY OVER EASTERN CLARK COUNTY AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN WOOD AND THEN INTO MARATHON COUNTY BY 415 PM. AS OF 330 THE STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF MARSHFIELD OR ABOUT 35 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS OVER NORTHEAST WJACKSON COUNTY AND THAT TOO WILL MOVE THROUGH WOOD COUNTY BY 415 PM. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG WIND GUSTS AND HAIL AS IT MOVES NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. OSTER
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 545 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1987 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY HAS EXPIRED. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER WERE RECEIVED BY THE COUNTY SHERIFF. WEATHER RADAR SHOWS ONLY LIGHT SHOWERS OR THUNDRSTORMS REMAINING IN THE COUNTY. OSTER
Special weather statement, May 10, 5:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 555 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHED FROM WEST OF PARK FALLS TO NEAR LADYSMITH AT 550 PM. THIS IS ABOUT 55 MILES WEST OF RHINELANDER OVER NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A GOOD DEAL OF SMALL HAIL AS WELL AS GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH PRICE AND TAYLOR COUNTIES BETWEEN NOW AND 6 50 PM. OSTER
Special weather statement, May 10, 6:48 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 645 PM CDT SUN MAY 10 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES FROM PEPIN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN TO JUST NORTH OF ROCHESTER IN SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS HAV BEEN REPORTED IN THESE STORMS. THEY WILL BE MOVING THROUGH BUFFALO COUNTY BETWEEN NOW AND 7 30 PM AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 40 MPH. PERSONS IN BUFFALO COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF CONDITIONS BECOME THREATENING. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER THEY WILL REACH TREMPEALEAU AND LA CORSS4E COUNTIES BETWEEN 7 15 AND 8 30 PM. OSTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 12:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 19 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1987Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987
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.