Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1989
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1989, 1:10 PM CDT for Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 26, 1989, 1:10 PM CDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1989, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Rock, 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSN 261810
TORMSN
WIC105-261900-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
110 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON WIHAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...ROCK
AT 100PM CDT A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED BY DANE COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICER AT EDGERTON MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST AT 3 0 MPH.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK 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.
STIMACHWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 26, 1:03 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 100 PM CDT MON JUN 26 1989 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THREATENING FOX VALLEY... AT 1250 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM ABOUT 50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GREEN BAY..NEAR RED GRANITE IN WAUSHARA COUNTY TO SOUTH OF MADISON. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS ALREADY PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLE TORNADOES ALONG ITS PATH. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING WINNEBAGO..SOUTHERN WAUPACA COUNTIES BY AROUND 130 OR 145 PM CDT THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. BRUSKY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 11:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Richland | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 11:32 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Iowa | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 11:42 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Sauk | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 12:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Columbia, Dane | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 12:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Adams | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 12:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Green | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Green Lake | 45 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.