Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 3:29 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1990, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1990, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 567 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSN 022029
SVRMSN
WIC021-022115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
329 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON WIHAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...EASTERN COLUMBIA
LOCAL RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM FROM JUST WEST AND NORTH OF
MADISON TO 10 MILES NORTH OF MADISON NEAR ARLINGTON. MOVEMENT OF THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.
SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WARNING ARE ARLINGTON...POYNETTE...RIO...
COLUMBUS...RANDOLF...AND CAMBRIA.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SH(ELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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 2, 3:02 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
WIZ008-005-008-009-012-013-022045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 300 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN EXCEPT DOOR COUNTY... AT 255 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHWEST TO CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN WERE IN THE STEVENS POINT-AMHERST JUNCTION AREA IN PORTAGE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR. AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS EXTENDED FROM GREEN BAY TO MARINETTE. THIS AREA OF SHOWERS WAS ALSO MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. AS OF 3 PM CDT THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. HOWEVER YOU SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATE- MENTS AND THE POSSIBLY OF WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 3:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 52 min |
| Jun 2, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 48 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.