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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 14, 1989Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1989, 12:33 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1989, 12:33 PM CDT (17:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1989, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Dane 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1989-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1989-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSN 141733
TORMSN
WIC025-141830-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
1233 PM CDT WED JUN 14 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
      NORTHERN DANE

AT 1225 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHERN DANE COUNTY..ONE WAS 5 MILES NORTH
OF MADISON AND ANOTHER 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON..MOVING
EAST-SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MPH.  PEA AND GRAVEL SIZE HAIL HAVE
BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. ALSO..NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE
BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHERN DANE COUNTY. THREE FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE
BEEN SITED BY WEATHER SERVICE OBSERVERS.  NUMEROUS TOUCH DOWNS HAVE
BEEN REPORTED IN THE SUN PRAIRIE AREA .

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...TAKE SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH...
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 11:32 AM CDTTornado WarningGRBDane58 min
Jun 14, 11:53 AM CDTTornado WarningGRBColumbia67 min
Jun 14, 12:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBSauk54 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.