Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1990, 2:20 PM CDT for Kenosha County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1990, 2:20 PM CDT (19:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Racine 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1306 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 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 181932 COR SVRMKE WIC059-101-182000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED ...CORRECTION... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 230 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...KENOSHA...RACINE...AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN... AT 220 PM CDT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM CENTRAL RACINE COUNTY NEAR RAYMOND...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF RACINE TO WESTERN KENOSHA COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. HIGH WINDS AND HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. 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 THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. HAASE
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 18, 10:31 AM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
WIZ010-011-014-015-018-019-181530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 10:30 AM CDT WED JULY 18 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT10:20 AM CDT..RADAR DETECTED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND A FEW HEAVY THUNDER- STORMS WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERS LOCATED 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON TO 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUBUQUE IOWA. THE HEAVIEST STORM WERE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF RICHLAND CENTER OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND PEA SIZE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED FROM FROM THESE STORMS. GRIMM
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 11:54 AM CDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
WIZ016-WIZ017-181730 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1145 AM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN IN DODGE COUNTY... AT 1145 AM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN DODGE COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND ENTERING WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST EAST OF RICHWOOD IN SOUTHERN DODGE COUNTY...41 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE...WAS PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS. SMALL HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THE AREA OF RAIN WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES AND ENTER WAUKESHA AND OZAUKEE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR ...POSSIBLY REACHING MILWAUKEE COUNTY BY 1 PM CDT. GARCIA
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 12:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
WIZ016-WIZ017-WIZ019-WIZ020-181845 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1250 PM CDT WED JUL 18 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN IN DODGE COUNTY... AT 1245 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN DODGE AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES EXTENDING TO SOUTH OF MADISON. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM IS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OFF OZAUKEE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR BEAVER DAM AND LEBANON IN DODGE COUNTY WHICH IS ABOUT 35 MILES WEST/NORTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE IN ToHE TOWN OF PORT WASHINGTON SHORTLY AFTER NOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH PORTIONS OF DODGE... WASHINGTON...OZAUKEE...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES POSSIBLY MOVING INTO WAUKESHA AND WALWORTH COUNTIES BY 130 P.M. KAVINSKY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Jul 18, 1:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 67 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990
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.