Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1990, 5:26 PM CDT for Adams County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1990, 5:26 PM CDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1990, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adams 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 319 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
- 1194 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSN 062226
SVRMSN
WIC001-062300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
526 PM CDT THU SEP 6 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON WIHAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...NORTHERN ADAMS
AT 520 PM CDT LOCAL RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MONROE
CENTER MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. A CITY IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IS BIG
FLATS.
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 ALE RT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
PIERCEWhat 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, Sep 6, 2:23 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
WIZ008-005-008-009-062015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 215 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE LINE EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU...NORTHEASTWARD TO ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF GREEN BAY NEAR MARINETTE. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN EXTREME WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY...NEAR WITTENBURG...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS LINE AT THIS TIME... HOWEVER...THE POTENTIAL EXITS FOR THESE STORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND ...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. BRUSKY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
WIZ008-009-012-013-062115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 330 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 330 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN AND THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE BAY OF GREEN BAY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF THE TOWN OF WAUPACA AND IN NORTHEAST WINNEBAGO COUNTY...JUST WEST OF NEENAH. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS IN CALUMET COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF CHILTON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. BOATERS ON THE SOUTHERN END OF THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SHOULD ALSO SEEK SAF^E HARBOR. BRUSKY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
WIZ008-009-012-013-062130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 345 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN MANITOWOC COUNTY... AT 345 PM RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN MANITOWOC COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF MANITOWOC...NEAR VALDERS AND ST NAZIANZ. THIS STORM HAS STRENGTHENED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES INTO THE CITY OF MANITOWOC BY AROUND 3 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH. ALSO BOATERS tALONG THE MANITOWOC COUNTY NEARSHORE AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. BRUSKY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:03 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
WIZ008-009-012-013-062130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION TO TIME..PARAGRAGH 2 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 345 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN MANITOWOC COUNTY... AT 345 PM RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN MANITOWOC COUNTY...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF MANITOWOC...NEAR VALDERS AND ST NAZIANZ. THIS STORM HAS STRENGTHENED RAPIDLY DURING THE PAST 15 MINUTES. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG WINDS AS IT MOVES INTO THE CITY OF MANITOWOC BY AROUND 4 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE PREPARED TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER SHOULD THREAT|ENING WEATHER APPROACH. ALSO BOATERS ALONG THE MANITOWOC COUNTY NEARSHORE AREA SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. BRUSKY
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 4:40 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
WIZ008-009-012-013-062230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 435 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 435 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...SOME PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY AND ALONG A LINE OF DEVELOPING STORMS FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY TO 50 MILES NORTH...NEAR MARINETTE. ALSO...STRONG STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN OCONTO COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BOATERS ON THE BAY OF GREEN BAY...ALONG THE WESTERN SHORE OF LAKE MICHIGAN...AND PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER. STONE
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 5:14 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WIZ008-009-012-013-062250- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 515 PM CDT THU SEP 06 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING KEWAUNEE COUNTY... AT 510 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM ENTERING WESTERN KEWAUNEE COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES EAST OF GREEN BAY. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED HEAVY RAINSHOWERS BUT IS INTENSIFYING AND BEARS WATCHING. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SHELTER. THIS STORM CAN PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING...HAIL...AND HEAVY RAIN. BOATERS ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR. STONE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Marquette, Waushara | 60 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.