Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS La Crosse, WI
NWS La Crosse, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1989, 9:01 PM CDT for Monroe County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1989, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1989, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS La Crosse, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 2657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 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 KMSN 250202
SVRLSE
WIC081-250230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LA CROSSE WI
ISSUED BY MADISON WI
901 PM CDT MON APR 24 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...NORTHERN MONROE
AT 857PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAT
OF LACROSSE WISCONSIN MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
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 IN SEVERE THUNDE RSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
STIMACHWhat 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, Apr 24, 5:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 538 PM CDT MON APR 24 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT TIL 8 PM CDT FOR THE SOUTHERNMOST TIER OF COUNTIES IN MINNESOTA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THRU SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AT 530 PM CDT...ROCHESTER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THRU EASTERN STEELE COUNTY AND MOVING INTO WESTERN DODGE COUNTY...LOCATED FROM EAST OF OWATONNA TO NEAR BLOOMING PRARIE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO THE DODGE CENTER AND HAYFIELD AREAS BY 6 PM. THIS STORM IS CAPLABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE MOVING THRU OLMSTED COUNTY AND THE ROCHESTER AREA AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FORp RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MOVE INDOORS IF STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. EFFERTZ
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 5:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 557 PM CDT MON APR 24 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR ALL OF MINNESOTA... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THRU SOUTHERN MINNESOTA... AT 555 PM CDT...ROCHESTER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THRU DODGE AND OLMSTED COUNTIES OF MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR DODGE CENTER...TO HAYFIELD..TO BLOOMING PRARIE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN SECTIONS OF OLMSTED COUNTY AROUND 6 30 PM. THIS STORM IS CAPLABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN... FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES...POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE MOVING THRU THE ROCHESTER AND ORONOCO AREAS AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS OVER SOUTHERN MINNESOTA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND MOVE INDOORS IF STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA. EFFERTZ
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 7:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 700 PM CDT MON APR 24 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... AT 655 PM CDT...ROCHESTER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN OLMSTED COUNTY INTO THE ROCHESTER AND ORONOCO VICINITIES. MOVMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL BE AFFECTING THE ROCHESTER AREA TIL AROUND 7 30 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PEA SIZED HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND WINDS GUSTING TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES WERE MOVING THRU THE EASTERN SECTION OF OLMSTED COUNTY AND SOUTHERN WABASHA COUNTY FROM NEAR PLAINVIEW TO EYOTA. THEY WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE AFFECTING WESTERN SECTIONS OF WINONA COUNTY BY 7 15 PM. . PERSONS IN OLMSTED...WABASHA AND WINONA COUNTIES WILL EXPERIENCE THESE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. BECAUSE THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES..REMEMBER TO MOVE INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES AND USE THE TELEPHONE ONLY FOR AN EMERGENCY SITUATION. EFFERTZ
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 7:14 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 930 AM CDT TUE APR 25 1989 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA WERE PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND CONSIDERABLE LIGHTNING. AT 930 AM CDT THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES EAST OF ROCHESTER NEAR EYOTA TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ROCHESTER NEAR HARMONY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE NEAR WINONA AND HOUSTON MINNESOTA AND LA CROSSE WISCONSIN BETWEEN 1030AM AND 1100AM CDT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PART OF AN AREA OF SHOWERS COVERING SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS FROM RED WING TO WABASHA...LANESBORO...AND HARMONY. THE RAIN EXTENDS WEST TO LE SUEUR...ST PETER...WASECA...AND AUSTIN. TALLEY
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 8:15 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER MN 815 PM CDT MON APR 24 1989 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO TREK OVER SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA... AT 805 PM CDT...ROCHESTER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THRU SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF WABASHA AND THRU MOST OF WINONA COUNTY. THEY WERE LOCATED FROM PLAINVIEW TO SARATOGA..AND FROM PLAINVIEW...TO JUST WEST OF WINONA..TO WILSON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PEA SIZED HAIL...HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN..FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES AND WINDS GUSTING TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. ELSEWHERE...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSHOWERS CONTINUED OVER A WIDESPREAD AREA OF SOUTHEAST MINNESOTA FROM NEAR WABASHA..TO WEST OF ROCHESTER NEAR DODGE CENTER...TO NEAR CALEDONIA. THIS AREA OF RAIN WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. . PERSONS IN SOUTHERN WABASHA...WINONA...NORTHERN FILLMORE AND/ HOUSTON COUNTIES CAN EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. EFFERTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS La Crosse, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | La Crosse | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 10:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ARX | Vernon | 27 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.