Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1990, 6:02 PM CDT for Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1990, 6:02 PM CDT (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1990, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sheboygan 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 499 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKE 082305
SVRMKE
WIC117-090000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
602 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...SHEBOYGAN
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
AT 600 PM...A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS
SOUTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR
BATIVIA...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN...
NORTHEAST TO THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH.
AT 555 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND ESTIMATED
60 MPH WINDS 2 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF SHEBOYGAN.
CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE SHEBOYGAN.
BOATERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN SEEK SAFE HARBOR.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.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, Jul 8, 5:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-017-082300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 500 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 ...RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHERN FOND DU LAC AND NORTHERN DODGE COUNTIES. AT 450 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STORM ALONG THE FOND DU LAC AND DODGE COUNTY BORDER...JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF WAUPUN OR 15 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF FOND DU LAC. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST TO SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE HEADING FOR THE TOWNS OF LOMIRA AND CAMPBELLSPORT...AND THEN WILL BE OVER THE CITY OF WEST BEND IN WASHINGTON COUNTY BY 515 PM CDT. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS WITH THIS STORM...BUT PERSONS IN NORTHERN DODGE...SOUTHERN FOND DU LAC AND WASHINGTON COUNTY CAN EXPECT BRIEF GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH THIS STORM. LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:35 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
WIZ012-013-017-082300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 530 PM CDT SUN JUL 8 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SHEYBOYGAN COUNTY... AT 520 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEASTERN FOND DU LAC COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF CAMBELLSPORT...15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FOND DU LAC. THIS STORM IS NOW MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS JUST NORTH OF WASHINGTON COUNTY AND MOVE INTO SHEBOYGAN COUNTY. THE STORM WILL PASS OVER THE CITY OF CASCADE AND RANDOM LAKE BY 540 PM AND THEN NEAR THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE BY 55O PM CDT. AT 530 PM THE FOND DU LAC COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WITH STORM. PERSONS IN SHEBOYGAN CAN EXPECT THE SAME ALONG WITH BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. BOATERS ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN FOR SHEBOYGAN AND NORTHERN OZAUKEE COUNTIES SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AT ONCE. HELMAN
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.