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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Green Bay, WI

October 14, 1990Dane County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 1990, 7:22 PM CDT for Dane County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 1990, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 1990, 7:55 PM CDT
In force
33 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Oct 14, 7:24 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Dane, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1990-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1990-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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 KMSN 150022
SVRMSN
WIC025-150115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
722 PM CDT SUN OCT 14 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON WIHAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
          ...EASTERN DANE
 
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER MADISON AT 615 PM CDT MOVING
EAST AT 40 MPH. AT 615 PM A WIND GUST OF 63 MPH WAS REPORTED AT THE
AIRPORT IN MADISON.
 
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THgE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, Oct 14, 7:12 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
WIZ-008-009-012-013-009-150100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
710 PM CDT SAT OCT 14 1990

AT 700 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND A FEW
HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM FLORENCE AND MARINETTE COUNTIES
SOUTH TO MENOMINEE...SHAWANO AND WAUPACA COUNTIES. THE HEAVIEST STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEASTERN WAUPACA COUNTIES NEAR NEW
LONDON...CLINTONVILLE AND FREMONT. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT
40 MILES PER HOUR.

THE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35 TO 40 MPH AND
SMALL HAIL AND WILL BE AFFECTING OUTAGAMIE AND WINNEBAGO COUNTIES BY
715 PM AND BROWN AND CALUMET COUNTIES NEAR 8PM.

PERSONS SHOULD BE ZALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

MECIKALSKI

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.