Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1988, 3:49 PM CDT for Clark 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 Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark 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, 3:55 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Clark, 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 201 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKE 082050
SVRMKE
WIC019-119-082145-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI
349 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...CLARK
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...TAYLOR
AT 348 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES EAST
OF EAU CLAIRE JUST SOUTH OF THORP IN NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY. THIS STORM
WILL BE MOVING INTO TAYLOR COUNTY AROUND 4PM.
EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM THIS STORM.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNvED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.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, 1:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 140 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 AT 130 PM CDT...POWERFUL THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SCOTT COUNTY IN THE SOUTHERN SUBURBS OF THE TWIN CITIES AND ALSO PEIRCE COUNTY OF WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH TOWARD EAST PART OF THE TWIN CITIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.. IN PEIRCE COUNTY FROM PLUM CITY TO ELLSWORTH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COVERED THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MINNESOTA AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. COLEMAN
Special weather statement, May 8, 2:19 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 215 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 AT 205 PM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM ALL OVER THE TWIN CITY METRO AREA MOSTLY SCOTT..CARVER AND SOUTHERN HENNEPIN COUNTIES.. REPORTS FROM HOPKINS OF MARBLE SIZE HAIL FOR 10 MINUTES.. ELLSWORTH AND PLUM CITY WISCONSIN WERE ALSO REPORTING MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND BRIEF BUT STRONG DOWNBURST WINDS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH THROUGH THE TWIN CITIES AT 40 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.. FROM PIERCE THROUGH ST CROIX AND DUNN COUNTIES.. OR FROM PLUM CITY TO ELLSWORTH TO HUDSON OVER TO MEN OMONEE. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BLANKETED THE EASTERN QUARTER HALF OF MINNESOTA AND THE WEST HALF OF WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. COLEMAN
Special weather statement, May 8, 2:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 235 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 AT 225 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE WITH PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL EXTENDED SOUTH THROUGH NORTH OF THE TWIN CITES. FROM SCOTT AND CARVER COUTNIES THROUGH HENNEPIN.. ANOKA AND ISANTI COUNTIES. ANOTHER LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE WAS LOCATED IN WEST WISCONSIN FROM RED WING MINNESOTA NORTH THROUGH ELLSWOR*TH.. RIVER FALLS AND SOMERSET. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BLANKETED THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF MINNESOTA AND WEST HALF OF WISCONSIN. EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRMONT TO MANKATO TO ELK RIVER UP TO MORA. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. COLEMAN
Special weather statement, May 8, 3:27 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS/ST PAUL MN 330 PM CDT SUN MAY 8 1988 THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER HAS DIMINISHED SIGNIFICANTLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. THUS...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 110 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR MINNESOTA. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST AND EASTCENTRAL MINNESOTA AND WILL REMAIN SO INTO THIS EVENING. SOME WELCOME RAINS AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE THE RESULRT. PAULSON
Special weather statement, May 8, 3:43 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 335 PM CDT SUN MAY 7 1988 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH SMALL HAIL MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA... THUNDERSTORMS...SOME HEAVY WITH SMALL HAIL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA. SHERBURNE...EASTERN BENTON AND MILLE LACS COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL MINNESOTA WILL EXPERIENCE SHOWERS AND THUNDcERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. WHILE THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE...THEY ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. TRIPLETT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Dunn, Pepin, Pierce | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Clark | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.