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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 2, 1987Lincoln County, Oneida County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1987, 3:03 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1987, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1987, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, WI, Oneida 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 167 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 12:00Z on 1987-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1987-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 43 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 2, 1:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI
135 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1987

....A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

AT 130 PM CDT..WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM NEAR SAXON IN NORTHERN IRON COUNTY...75 MI ESE OF DULUTH
TO GLIDDEN IN ASHLAND COUNTY...79 MI SE OF DULUTH TO LORETTA IN EASTERN
SAWYER COUNTY...66 MI NNE OF EAU CLAIRE TO NEAR BRUCE IN RUSK COUNTY...
35 MI NORTH OF EAU CLAIRE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR SAXON
AND IN NORTHWESTERN PRICE COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF PARK FALLS.

THE LINE IS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING VILAS...
PRICE...WESTERN ONEIDA...AND NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT
TWO HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY ABREAST OF THE LATEST
WEATHER CONDITIONS..BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATH	ER AND SEEK SAFE
SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH.

FIELD
Special weather statement, Jul 2, 2:44 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI
245 PM CDT THU JUL 2 1987

....A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL
    WISCONSIN....

AT 235 PM CDT..WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM NORTHEASTERN IRON COUNTY NEAR MERCER...77 MI NNW OF
WAUSAU SOUTHWESTWARD TO TH EAST OF PHILLIPS IN CENTRAL PRICE COUNTY...
TO NEAR PRENTICE IN SOUTHEAST PRICE COUNTY...43 MI WSW OF RHINELANDER
AND TO ABOUT 20 MI NW OF HANNIBAL IN WESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY...48 MI NE OF
EAU CLAIRE. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 25 MPH.

A 230 PM THE SHERIFFS OFFICE IN PRICE COUNTY REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL...
GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINS AS THE STORMS PASSED THROUGH PHILLIPS.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE AFFECTING VILAS...ONEIDA...EASTERN PRICE...
NORTHWESTERN LINCOLN...AND NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT TWO
HOURS. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WIbTH
THESE STORMS.

PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING
WEATHER APPROACH.

FIELD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXLanglade, Lincoln, Taylor50 min
Jul 2, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon53 min
Jul 2, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon56 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.