Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 1990, 11:48 PM CDT for Clark County, Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 13, 1990, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1990, 12:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, WI, Marathon 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 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 811 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1378 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 140450 SVRMKE WIC019-073-140545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1148 PM CDT THU SEP 13 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILW
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, Sep 13, 9:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
WIZ004-007-140400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 953 PM CDT THU SEP 13 1990 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 950 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS LINE STRETCHED FROM NEAR RADISSION IN SOUTHERN SAWYER COUNTY...TO BARRON IN CENTRAL BARRON COUNTY. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE ENTERING TAYLOR COUNTY AFTER 1015 PM. THE STORMS WILL BE EFFECTING THE TOWN OF HANNIBAL...64 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU BY 1030 PM. THIS LINE OF INTENSE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO LINCOLN...MARATHON...AND CLARK COUNTIES AFTER 1045 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR CHIPPEWA LAKE IN SAWYER COUNTY AS THESE STORMS MOVED THROUGH. ^ PERSONS IN NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN ARE ADVISED TO STAY ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. KOCHIS
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 10:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
WIZALL-140500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1040 PM CDT THU SEP 13 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 741 CANCELLED... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 742 IN EFFECT FOR PA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 13, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Lincoln, Taylor | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.