Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1987
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1987, 6:33 PM CDT for Forest County, Langlade County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 1987, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 1987, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Forest, WI | |
| Aug 1, 7:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Forest, WI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 735 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 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 012333 SVRMKE WIC037-041-067-020030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 633 PM CDT SAT AUG 1 1987 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...FLORENCE...FOREST AND LANGLADE AT 630 PM CDT..A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM LONG LAKE..40 MILES NORTHEAST OF RHINELANDER TO NORTHEAST OF ORMSBY..20 MILES SOUTH OF RHINELANDER. AT 625 PM HIGH WINDS HAVE DOWNED TREES AND WIRES AT THREE LAKES.. IN NORTHEAST ONEIDA COUNTY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGH TNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES TAKE SHELTER. HAASE
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, Aug 1, 6:21 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 620 PM CDT SAT AUG 1 1987 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH/CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 615 PM CDT..A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED IN FOREST.. EASTERN ONEIDA AND LANGLADE COUNTIES FROM LONG LAKE..40 MILES NORTHEAST OF RHINELANDER TO ORMSBY..25 MILES SOUTH OF RHINELANDER. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS FLORENCE..FOREST..LANGLADE AND ONEIDA COUNTIES THROUGH 730 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN..STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLE HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. HAASE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Florence | 57 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.