Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 4:30 PM CDT for Iowa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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
- May 8, 1988, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1988, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iowa 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado F1 | Iowa, 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 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.
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 8, 3:28 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 330 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9PM CDT... RADAR INDICATED AT 330 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF WISCONSIN. NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN CAN EXPECT THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE IN FROM THE WEST AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD SHOW SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMANAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE ALERT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND LISTENING FORT LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PLH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Richland | 45 min |
| May 8, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 39 min |
| May 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Sauk | 48 min |
| May 8, 5:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Juneau, Sauk | 29 min |
| May 8, 5:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane, Green | 40 min |
| May 8, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Columbia | 49 min |
| May 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette | 68 min |
| May 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams | 68 min |
| May 8, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 34 min |
| May 8, 6:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 62 min |
| May 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 64 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.