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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 26, 1989Adams County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1989, 12:27 PM CDT for Adams County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 1989, 12:27 PM CDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 1989, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Adams 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 1989-06-26Temperature 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 1989-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 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
940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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 261727 RRA
TORMSN
WIC001-261815-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
1227 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON WIHAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
          ...ADAMS
 
AT 1224PM CDT A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN LAKE DELTON.
 
SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SExEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
 
STIMACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 11:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBRichland44 min
Jun 26, 11:32 AM CDTTornado WarningGRBIowa43 min
Jun 26, 11:42 AM CDTTornado WarningGRBSauk48 min
Jun 26, 12:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBColumbia, Dane48 min
Jun 26, 12:34 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBGreen41 min
Jun 26, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBGreen Lake45 min
Jun 26, 1:10 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBRock50 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.