Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 8:12 PM CST for Juneau County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 8:12 PM CST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 8:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Juneau County, WI, Sauk 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 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 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 140212
SVRMSN
WIC057-111-140245-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
812 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTH CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
SOUTHERN JUNEAU...NORTHERN SAUK
AN INTENSE THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON
NEAR LAVALLE IN SAUK COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
30 MPH.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS
SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY...
AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
SWENSONWhat 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, Mar 13, 6:04 PM CST, 2 hours 8 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-140100 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 600 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THRU WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 600 PM CST RADAR SHOWS AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY. THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE GREEN BAY VICINTY BY 630 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS NOT IN EFFECT FOR 5NORTHEAST WISCONSIN BUT PERSONS SHOULD STILL LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 7:56 PM CST, 16 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-140400 SPECIAL WEATHER AND URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 800 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN MOST OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 800 PM CST RADAR SHOWS MOST OF WISCONSIN COVERED BY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. BUT WITH THE GROUND GENERALLY STILL FROZEN AND SATURATED BY RECENT RAINS...LOCALIZED FLOODING COULD OCCUR IN LOW LYING AREAS. TRAVELERS BE ALERT TO STREET FLOODING SUCH AS UNDERPASSES...WHILE IN THE RURAL AREAS BE ALERT TO RISING SMALL STREAMS. HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 6:11 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Dane | 64 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.