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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 3:49 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 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, 3:49 PM CDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1988, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor 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, 4:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Taylor, 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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, 2:42 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 310 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 305 PM RADAR INDICATE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. AT 3 PM THORP IN CLARK COUNTY REPORTED MARBLE SIZED HAIL. SEVERAL STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE AND 20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAU CLAIRE NEAR THE TOWNS OF HANNIBAL AND JUST NORTHWEST OF FAIRCHILD IN WESTERN TAYLOR AND WESTERN CLARK COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. EXPECT STRONG WINDS AND HAIL FROM THESE STORMS. IN ADDITION A TORNADO WATCH COVERS MUCH OF WISCONSIN EXCEPT THE FAR NORTH UNTIL 9 PM. PERSONS IN WISDCONSIN SHOULD BE ALET TO SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HENTZ
Special weather statement, May 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 343 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROCHING NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 340 PM RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES EAST OF EAU CLAIRE IN FAR WESTERN CLARK COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT THE THORP AND OWEN AREA OF CLARK COUNTY BY 4PM. EXPECT HAIL AND STRONG WINDS FROM THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL THEN HEAD INTO pSOUTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY AFTER 4PM. A TORNADO WATCH COVERS MUCH OF WISCONSIN EXCEPT THE FAR NORTH UNTIL 9PM. PERSONS IN WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ALERT TO SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon, Wood | 63 min |
| May 8, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 38 min |
| May 8, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 61 min |
| May 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 41 min |
| May 8, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marathon, Portage | 36 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 51 min |
| May 8, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Langlade | 66 min |
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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.