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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Milwaukee, WI

August 9, 1990Taylor County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1990, 3:51 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 9, 1990, 3:51 PM CDT (20:51 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 1990, 4:55 PM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Taylor 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 092056
SVRMKE
WIC119-092200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
351 PM CDT THU AUG 9 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
          ...TAYLOR
 
AT 350 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST
TAYLOR COUNTY NEAR HANNIBAL...ABOUT 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU.
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE
HANNIBAL..PERKINSTOWN AND MEDFORD.
 
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, Aug 9, 3:38 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

WIZ004-007-092145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
335 PM CDT THU AUG 9 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

AT 330 PM A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM NEAR HANNIBAL
IN TAYLOR COUNTY...ABOUT 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU...TO RHINELANDER
IN ONEIDA COUNTY.  THESE STORMS HAVE BEEN PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS
AND HAIL.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

PERSONS IN LINCOLN...TAYLOR AND CLARK COUNTIES OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN
SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE
OF HOURS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM.
HAASE

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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.