Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 11, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT for Sawyer County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 11, 1990, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 11, 1990, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sawyer 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
International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 1705 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 204 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, Sep 11, 1:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Sep 11, 5:48 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 545 PM CDT TUE SEP 11 1990 AT 530 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MINNESOTA/CANADIAN BORDER NEAR INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TOWARD FARGO. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER RAINY LAKE AREA...CLEAR WATER AND SOUTHWEST BELTRAMI COUNTIES BY 630 PM CDT. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTENING. BOATERS AND OTHER OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS...SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR FAVORITE AM/FM RADIO OR TV STATION IN THE EVENT FURTHER STAT9EMENTS ARE REQUIRED. CARROLL
Special weather statement, Sep 11, 5:50 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INTERNATIONAL FALLS MN 545 PM CDT TUE SEP 11 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PORTION OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA UNTIL 1100 PM CDT... AT 530 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE MINNESOTA/CANADIAN BORDER NEAR INTERNATIONAL FALLS AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST TOWARD FARGO. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER RAINY LAKE AREA...CLEAR WATER AND SOUTHWEST BELTRAMI COUNTIES BY 630 PM CDT. THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTENING. BOATERS AND OTHER OUTDOOR ENTHUSIASTS...SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IF THUNDERSTO<RMS APPROACH. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...YOUR FAVORITE AM/FM RADIO OR TV STATION IN THE EVENT FURTHER STATEMENTS ARE REQUIRED. CARROLL
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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.