Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1988, 1:44 PM CDT for Columbia County, Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1988, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1988, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane 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
Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 2579 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Winnebago | 60 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.