Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1990
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN
NWS Duluth, MN issued this tornado warning at Jun 19, 1990, 4:57 PM CDT for Burnett County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1990, 4:57 PM CDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1990, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Duluth, MN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Burnett 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 KDLH 192157
TORDLH
WIC013-192230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN
457 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF WISCONSIN
BURNETT
AT 437 PM CDT PINE COUNTY SHERIFF PATROL REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS
5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINCKLEY MINNESOTA MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35
MILES AN HOUR TOWARD DANBURY WISCONSIN IN NORTHERN BURNETT COUNTY
WISCONSIN.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER OR
A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND
MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
ADDITIONALLY..A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THRU THE GRANTSBURG
WISCONSIN AREA IN SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY.
OLSONWhat 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 19, 4:22 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
MNZ009-011-012-WIZ001>004-192220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 420 PM CDT TUE JUN 19 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 501 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... AT 415 PM CDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS LAY JUST TO THE SOUTH OF DULUTH MINNESOTA OVER CARLTON AND PINE COUNTIES MINNESOTA. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF PINE CITY OR 55 MILES NORTH OF THE NORTHERN SUBURBS OF MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA. THIS STRONGEST STORM LAY JUST NORTH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR WHICH WILL MOVE THE STORM INTO SOUTHERN BURNETT COUNTY WISCONSIN DURING THE NEXT HOUR. THE STORM WILL PASS BY GRANTBURN BY 445 PM WITH THEb STRONGEST PORTION OF THE STORM TO THE SOUTH OF GRANTSBURG..THEN THIS STORM MAY BE IN THE SIREN AREA BY AROUND 5 PM CDT. PERSONS IN BURNETT COUNTY WISCONSIN BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE WEATHER AND TAKE COVER IF NECESSARY. OLSON
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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.