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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 7, 1987Lincoln County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1987, 7:05 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1987, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1987, 7:50 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln 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, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1987-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1449 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1987-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1449 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 080005
SVRMKE
WIC069-080050-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI
705 PM CDT SUN JUN 7 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF

NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...LINCOLN

AT 705 PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN THE
SOUTHWEST PART OF LINCOLN COUNTY 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU.
THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO MERRILL.

THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF STRONG DAMAGING WINDS.

REMEMBER..SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE LOOKOUT.

HENTZ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXLanglade57 min
Jun 7, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon, Portage36 min
Jun 7, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWood32 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.