Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 15, 1990, 7:27 PM CDT for Ozaukee County, Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 15, 1990, 7:27 PM CDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 15, 1990, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Ozaukee County, WI, Washington 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, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 706 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 902 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKE 160028
SVRMKE
WIC089-131-160130-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
727 PM CDT SEP 15 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND
SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
...OZAUKEE...WASHINGTON
AND ADJOINING COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
AT 715 PM 52 MPH WINDS AND TREES DOWN WERE REPORTED IN CAMPBELLSPORT
AND HAIL COVERING THE GROUND UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER WAS
REPORTED IN NORTHEAST DODGE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE
WEST BEND.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT 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.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 15, 6:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
WIZ010-011-014-015-018-019-160100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
600 PM CDT SAT SEP 15 1990
....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN....
AT 554 PM CDT WAUSHARA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT 3/8 TO 1/2 INCH
HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SAXEVILLE BY THE SAXEVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT. RADAR
INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN IN THE AREA.
THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS PART OF A LARGER AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN NORTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES SOUTH OF RICHLAND
CENTER...TO FOND DU LAC...TO 15 SOUTHEAST OF GREEN BAY. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE IN WAUSHARA COUNTY 10 MILES EAST OF WAUTOMA AND IN GREEN LAKE
COUNTY 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PRINCETON.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. BRIEF HEAVY
DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...AND SOME SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
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PIERCESpecial weather statement, Sep 15, 7:08 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 700 PM CDT SAT SEP 15 1990 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN DODGE COUNTY...MOVING INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY... AT 700 PM...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE PASSING OVER THE CITIES OF MAYVILLE AND LOMIRA BY 715 PM. AT 645 PM THE DODGE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AND BRIEF DOWNPOURS WITH THIS STORM OVER THE CITY OF WAUPUN IN EXTREME NORTHERN DODGE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS PART OF A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. SOME AREAS IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN CAN EXPECT SMALL HAIL..BRIEF GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN WITH A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. HELMAN
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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.