Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 13, 1990, 5:02 PM CST for Dodge County, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 1990, 5:02 PM CST (23:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 1990, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dodge County, WI, Jefferson 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 149 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 132305
SVRMKE
WIC027-055-140000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
502 PM CST TUE MAR 13 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WHAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
...DODGE...JEFFERSON
AT 500 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN
THE WESTERN HALF OF JEFFERSON COUNTY BETWEEN WATERLOO AND JEFFERSON
...OR BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MILES WEST OF MILWAUKEE. THE STORMS WERE MOVINGTO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE
DANVILLE...REESEVILLE...AND RICHWOOD IN SOUTHWEST DODGE COUNTY.
ANOTHER CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHEAST DANE COUNTY NEAR
STOUGHTON. THESE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH ALSO AND WILL BE
AFFECTING WATERLOO AND LAKE MILLS IN NORTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE CAUG HT 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.
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, 3 hours 29 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 48 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, 2 hours 37 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, 4:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 36 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.