Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1989, 2:02 PM CDT for Milwaukee County, Waukesha County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1989, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1989, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Milwaukee County, WI, Waukesha 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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 26, 11:19 AM CDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 1115 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 6 PM CDT... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDER- STORM WATCH FOR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 6 PM CDT. AT 1110 AM...MOST THUNDERSTORMS WERE STILL IN WESTERN WISCONSIN EAST OF LA CROSSE AND DOWN TO AROUND LONE ROCK. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST- NORTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. SOME OF THESE STORMS SHOULD START TO ENTER EASTERN WISCONSIN AFTER 12 NOON. PERSONS IN EASTERN WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. STUREY
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 12:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE WI 1210 AM CDT MON JUN 26 1989 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FOND DU LAC DODGE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES... AT 1200 NOON CDT WEATHER RADAR DEPICTED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM NEAR WISCONSIN DELLS THROUGH WESTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY AND THROUGH NORTHWEST DANE COUNTY 20 MILES WEST OF MADISON TO NEAR DARLINGTON IN CENTRAL LAFAYETTE COUNTY. THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS WHEN THE STORMS MOVED THROUGH SAUK COUNTY BETWEEN 1100 AM AND NOON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EASTNORTHEAST AT 30 TO 40 MPH AND SHOULD BE ENTERING FOND DU LAC DODGE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES NEAR 100 PM CDT. PERSONS IN THESE COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING AND DEVELOPING CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF NECESSARY. THE SITUATION IS BEING MONITORED CLOSELY AND SUBSEQUENT STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS WILL BE ISSUED AS THE SIUTU]ATION WARRANTS. SCAFFIDI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge, Fond du Lac, Jefferson | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 2:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 42 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.