Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Twin Cities, MN
NWS Twin Cities, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1988, 5:44 PM CDT for Barron County, Polk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1988, 5:44 PM CDT (22:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1988, 6:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Twin Cities, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barron County, WI, Polk 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
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 1394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -219 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSP 192245
SVRMSP
WIC005-095-192330-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MINNEAPOLIS MN
544 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MINNEAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...SOUTHWESTERN BARRON...SOUTHEASTERN POLK
AT 5.40 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
AMERY WISCONSIN. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 TO 30
MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS LOCATED IN THE CITIES OF AMERY..RICHARDSON..AND
REEVE WISCONSIN SHOLUD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER
UNTIL 625 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN AND OCCASIONALLYI DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNINGWhat 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, Jun 19, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ST CLOUD MN 300 PM CDT SUN JUN 19 1988 AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM CONTINUES TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTH CENTRAL SHERBURNE COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTH SOUTHESAST OF ST CLOUD MINNESOTA. AT 255 PM CDT THE SHERBURNE COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL AT ORROCK...WHICH IS 21 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ST CLOUD MINNEOSTA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST 25 TO 30 MPH. RUBIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Twin Cities, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MPX | Saint Croix | 45 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.