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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 29, 1991Lincoln County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1991, 4:59 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 29, 1991, 4:59 PM CDT (21:59 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1991, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -602 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1427 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 29, 3:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 3:54 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 4:01 PM CDT, 58 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 29, 4:11 PM CDT, 48 minutes before

WIZ006-007-302300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
410 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1991

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN...

AT 400 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A COUPLE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN.
THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO WESTERN CLARK COUNTY BY 430 PM.
THE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY RAPIDLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH.

TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE HUMBIRD...WILLARD AND NEILSVILLE
MOUNDS OF CLARK COUNTY.  PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT
FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HAIL.

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AREA UNTIL 1000 PM CDT THIS
EVENING.  REMAIN ALERT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER CONDITIONS DEVELOPING VERY
QUICKLY.
DAVIS

Special weather statement, May 29, 4:27 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

WIZ004-292230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
425 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1991

...EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

AT 420 PM...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL TAYLOR
COUNTY NEAR PERKINSTOWN...OR 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU.  THE
STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

STORMS WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF PERKINSTOWN...MURAT AND CHELSEA
THROUGH 530 PM.

GUSTY WINDS...SOME HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WILL
BE POSSIBLE.

PERSONS IN TAYLOR COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING CONDITIONS
THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
^
STUREY

Special weather statement, May 29, 4:51 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

WIZ004-292300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
450 PM CDT WED MAY 29 1991

...EXPLOSIVE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH/CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

AT 445 PM...RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST LINCOLN
COUNTY...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST/SOUTHWEST OF TOMAHAWK. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL PASS AROUND TOMAHAWK...BRADLEY AND HEAFFORD JCT
THROUGH 6 PM.

GUSTY WINDS...SOME H<AIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WILL
BE POSSIBLE.

PERSONS IN LINCOLDN COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR CHANGING CONDITIONS
THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
^
STUREY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 12:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Clark, Taylor	61 min
May 29, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	12 min
May 29, 1:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Lincoln	67 min
May 29, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Marathon	47 min
May 29, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage	38 min
May 29, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Wood	34 min
May 29, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage	46 min

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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.