Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 22, 1991, 5:27 PM CDT for Washington County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 22, 1991, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1991, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 222229 TORMKE WIC131-222300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 527 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN ...WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 521 PM...WAUKESHA COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE TOWN OF NORTH LAKE IN NORTHWEST WAUKESHA COUNTY...ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF MILWAUKEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR TOWARD THE TOWNS OF SLINGER AND HARTFORD AS WELL AS HOLY HILL. IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...SEEK SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. GET TO A BASEMENT IF ONE IS AVAILABLE. AVOID WINDOWS AND PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS. J LAST
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 22, 11:42 AM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-017-019-020-221730- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1140 AM CDT WED MAY 22 1991 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS SPREADING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN... A NEWLY DEVELOPED LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR WAUWATOSA IN WESTERN MILWAUKEE COUNTY TO NEAR BURLINGTON IN WESTERN RACINE COUNTY. AT 1140...RADAR SHOWED THESE STORMS MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL AFFECT THE MILWAUKEE METROPOLITAN AREA AS WELL AS CENTRAL RACINE AND KENOSHA COUNTIES THROUGH 1 PM. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD EXPECT BRIEFLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER NEAR THESE STORMS. SOME LOCALIZED FLOODING IS ALSO POSSIBLE. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER EASTERN FOND DU LAC...WESTERN SHEBOYGAN AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES. THESE ARE ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. KAVINSKY
Special weather statement, May 22, 12:49 PM CDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-017-019-020-221900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE WEATHER SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1245 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1991 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE MILWAUKEE METRO AREA... A LARGE BUT SLOW MOVING CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS BLANKETED ALL OF MILWAUKEE COUNTY AND PORTIONS OF NEARBY COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR GERMANTOWN IN SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY THROUGH MILWAUKEE COUNTY TO NEAR UNION GROVE IN NORTHERN KENOSHA COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR. OTHER SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SHEBOYGAN COUNTY...JUST WEST OF SHEBOYGAN. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAINS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. DUE TO THE SLOW MOVEMENT AND HIGH MOISTURE CONTENT OF THE AIR...SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. PERSONS IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD EXPECT BRIEFLY REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADS. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED ROADWAY. KAVINSKY
Special weather statement, May 22, 3:23 PM CDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
WIZ017-020-222230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 324 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1991 THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN...INCLUDING MILWAUKEE AND RACINE COUNTIES...IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED THROUGH THE MILWAUKEE AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAVE NOW DIMINISHED OR ENDED. RAINFALL AT MITCHELL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN AROUND 2 INCHES. MOST OF THAT RAIN FELL BETWEEN NOON AND 1 PM. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED JUST ABOUT ANY TIME TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. SOME OF THESE MAY PRODUCE ADDITIONAL LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS <WHICH COULD RESULT IN SOME LOCAL URBAN OR SMALL STREAM FLOODING. HAHN
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:06 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-019-020-222330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 505 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1991 ...THUNDERSTORMS INCREASING IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 500 PM...RADAR SHOWED THUNDERSTORMS BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS IN SOUTH- EAST WISCONSIN. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED IN A BAND ACROSS PARTS OF NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY...SOUTHEAST DODGE COUNTY AND NORTHWEST WAUKESHA COUNTY...ESPECIALLY IN THE OCONOMOWOC AREA. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE FIRING OUT OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS TOWARD SOUTHERN WALWORTH AND WESTERN KENOSHA AND RACINE COUNTIES. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT ALL OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE STORMS DO HAVE THE POTENTIAL FOR GUSTY WINDS...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES BE PREPARED TO GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. ^ STUREY
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:15 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
WIZ010-011-014-015-018-019-222500-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
515 PM CDT WED MAY 22 1991
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
IN NORTHEAST DANE COUNTY..LOCATED ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MADISON MOVING NORTH AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR INTO SOUTHEAST
COLUMBIA COUNTY. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE
EAST BRISTOL..COLUMBUS AND DOYLESTOWN.
EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON THE EASTERN SECTION OF THESE STORMS
PRODUCED A TORNADO IN ROCK COUNTY. ALSO..A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS
SIGHTED ALOFT OVER MARSHALL IN DANE COUNTY. HOWEVER..NO OTHER
SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS AT THIS TIME.
PERSONS IN EASTERN COLUMBIA COUNTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR POTENTIALLY
DANGEROUS WEATHER FROM THESE STORMS.
[ ]MOONEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson | 47 min |
| May 22, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Waukesha | 27 min |
| May 22, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Dodge | 47 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.