Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1990, 2:22 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 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
- Jul 16, 1990, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1990, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Lincoln, 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 167 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1181 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 161925
SVRMKE
WIC069-162015-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
222 PM CDT MON JUL 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
...LINCOLN
AT 215 PM THE LINCOLN SHERIFF DEPARTEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IN THE CITY OF IRMA..25 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY
OF WAUSAU. 3/4 INCH HAIL AND 50 MPH WINDS WERE REPORTED WITH
THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND
WILL BE PASSING NEAR THE CITIES OF MERRILL..AND GLEASON.
IF YOU ARE CAUGH>T OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.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 16, 1:45 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
WIZ007-162000 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 145 PM CDT SUN JUL 15 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST LINCOLN COUNTY... AT 145 PM...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF LINCOLN COUNTY...JUST NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF TOMAHAWK..OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RHINELANDER. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE PASSING OVER TOMAHAWK BY 200 PM. HEAVY DOWNPOURS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE STORM. PERSONS IN LINCOLN COUNTY SHOULD LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HELMAN
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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.