Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1990, 4:12 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1990, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1990, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dane 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 022112
SVRMSN
WIC025-022200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
412 PM CDT SAT JUN 2 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
EASTERN DANE
AT 405 PM CDT RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST
OF NEW GLARUS OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MADISON. MOVEMENT NORTH
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE BELLEVILLE...VERONA AND
MADISON.
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...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AN^D DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
NOAHWhat 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, 1 hour 10 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, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia | 46 min |
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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.