Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1990, 1:48 PM CDT for Ashland County, Iron County, Price County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1990, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1990, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ashland County, WI, Iron County, WI, Price 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
Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 966 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 781 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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 12, 1:02 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
WIZ001>004-061900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 100 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 446 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 1255 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN WASHBURN COUNTY WISCONSIN 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SHELL LAKE OR 80 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF DULUTH MINNESOTA..AND OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SAWYER COUNTY WISCONSIN JUST SOUTHWEST OF RADDISON. THESE STORMS WERE INTENSIFYING AND MOVING RAPIDILY TO THE EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN EXTREME SOUTHERN WASHBURN COUNTY AND SOUTHERN SAYWER COUNTY MAY EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PREPARE TO TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS WHICH MAY BE ISSUED IN TIME. OLSON
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 1:24 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
WIZ001>004-061920- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 120 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 446 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 115 PM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN SAWYER COUNTY WISCONSIN NEAR RADDISON..20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAYWARD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDILY EAST NORTHEAST AT 50 TO 60 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE EFFECTING THE FOLLOWING TOWNS DURING THE NEXT HOUR..LORETTA IN EASTERN SAWYER COUNTY..PARK FALLS AND FIFIELD IN NORTHERN PRICE COUNTY..GLIDDEN IN SOUTHERN ASHLAND COUNTY..AND LASTLY MERCER IN SOUTHERN IRON COUNTY WISCONSIN. PERSONS WITHIN THESE AFORMENTIONED AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE SEVERE WEATHER DURING THE NEXT HOUR $AND SHOULD PREPARE TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES AND LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS WHICH MAY BE ISSUE IN TIME TO TAKE COVER. OLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Crow Wing | 53 min |
| Jun 12, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Vilas | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | DLH | Ashland | 25 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.