Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 1990, 6:50 PM CDT for Ashland County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1990, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1990, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ashland 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 290 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KDLH 122349
TORDLH
WIC003-130015-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
650 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN DULUTH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN
...SOUTHERN ASHLAND
AT 6 47 PM CDT COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFOCERS REPORTED A TORNADO ON
THE GROUND 1 1/2 MILE NORTH OF BUTTERNUT IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.What 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 12, 1:02 PM CDT, 5 hours 48 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, 5 hours 26 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
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 2:43 PM CDT, 4 hours 7 minutes before
WIZ001>004-062040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 240 PM CDT TUE JUN 12 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 446 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT... AT 235 PM CDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED JUST TO THE EAST OF DULUTH MINNESOTA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF DULUTH MINNESOTA OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SOUTHWEST INTO DOUGLAS COUNTY WISCONSIN THRU THE POPLAR AREA AND JUST NORTHWEST OF THE SOLON SPRINGS AREA. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED SOUTHWEST INTO EASTERN PINE COUNTY MINNESOTA TO 10 MILES EAST OF SANDSTONE AND HINCKLEY. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. TO THE EAST OF THIS LINE OF STORMS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THE POSSIBLE APPROACH OF THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE NEXT HOUR..THAT IS.. PERSONS IN THE BRULE..SOLON SPRINGS..AND GORDON AREAS OF DOUGLAS COUNTY..AND PERSONS IN THE IRON RIVER AND PORT WING AREAS OF BAYFIELD COUNTY WISCONSIN. BE PREPARED TO TAKE COVER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OLSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Duluth, MN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 1:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Ashland, Iron, Price | 42 min |
| Jun 12, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DLH | Vilas | 49 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.