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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Duluth, MN

June 19, 1990Burnett County, Wisconsin

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1990-06-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1990-06-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

OLSON

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 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

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.