Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 4:24 PM CST for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 4:24 PM CST (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 5:00 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Milwaukee 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 1706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 132224
SVRMKE
WIC079-132300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
424 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WHAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
...MILWAUKEE
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
AT 424 PM WEATHER RADAR SH0WED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WAUWATOSA...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILWAUKEE. AT 415 PM GOLF BALL SIZE
HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR HIGHWAY 100 AND WATERTOWN PLANK ROAD. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWNS OF
WHITEFISH BAY AND FOX POINT.
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 LOWESTl FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
FIELDWhat 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, 1:33 PM CST, 2 hours 51 minutes before
WIZ016-017-019-020-132200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 125 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 120 PM..RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR HARVARD IN NORTHERN MCHENRY COUNTY ILLINOIS. THIS IS ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF DELAVAN IN WALWORTH COUNTY. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN WALWORTH COUNTY BEFORE 2 PM...WITH THE STRONGEST STORM PASSING NEAR LAKE GENEVA. THEY WILL THEN CONTINUE ON INTO RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTY. SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 2:14 PM CST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-017-019-020-132200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 210 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING NORTHWARD ACROSS SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 200 PM...RADAR SHOWED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...GENERALLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM PORT WASHINGTON TO JANESVILLE. THESE STORMS CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTHWARD NEAR 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. JOHNSTON
Special weather statement, Mar 13, 2:25 PM CST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
WIZ010-011-014-015-018-019-140000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 220 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990 ...THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SOUTHERN WISCONSIN... AT 220 PM..RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST ROCK COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE ROCK COUNTY SHERIFF JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF BELOIT. GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE AND TRAVELERS IN SOUTHERN WISCONSIN NEAR THE WISCONSIN..ILLINOIS BORDER SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. PRZEKURAT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 3:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Racine, Walworth | 67 min |
| Mar 13, 4:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Mar 13, 5:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge, Jefferson | 58 min |
| Mar 13, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 65 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.