Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1992, 4:17 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1992, 4:17 PM CDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1992, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Columbia County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 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 KMSN 252119 SVRMSN WIC021-252200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 417 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...COLUMBIA COUNTY AT 415 PM...RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM BARABOO TO BLACK HAWK OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. PERSONS IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE WISCONSIN DELLS...PORTAGE...LEWISTON AND PARDEVILLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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. PIERCE/NOAH
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, Aug 25, 2:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
WIZ008-252015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 235 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 235 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CITY OF WAUPACA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF APPLETON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS WAUPACA COUNTY. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ROYALTON...MANAWA...AND ODENSBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOV E TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. ONCE INSIDE... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. . SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
WIZ008-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 245 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 245 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SHAWANO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES BY 330 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE GRESHAM...RED RIVER...AND KESHENA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF@ YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
WIZ008-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 305 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 305 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN SHAWANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 45 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SHAWANO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES BY 400 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE SHAWANO...RED RIVER...AND THORNTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YO~U ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:21 PM CDT, 56 minutes before
WIZ008-252115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN WAUPACA COUNTY... AT 320 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY BY 415 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE OGDENSBURG AND CLINTONVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 4:00 PM CDT, 17 minutes before
WIZ005-008-252200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 355 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN SHAWANO COUNTY... AT 355 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN EASTERN SHAWANO COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY NEAR ANGELICA AND ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY NEAR NAVARINO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS EASTERN SHAWANO AND SOUTHERN OCONTO COUNTIES BY 500 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE SAMPSON...ABRAMS... AND BONDUEL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IFn YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. . SKOWRONSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau, Sauk | 48 min |
| Aug 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca, Winnebago | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Winnebago | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.