Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 3:10 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 3:10 PM CDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 3:36 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wood County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 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 KMKE 162015 SVRMKE WIC097-141-162100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 310 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...PORTAGE COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY AT 305 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE MOST INTENSE STORMS WILL AFFECT PRIMARILY NORTHERN WOOD AND PORTAGE COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF MARSHFIELD AND JUNCTION CITY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. 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. J LAST
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 16, 12:17 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
WIZ004-007-161815- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1213 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 1205 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR THE WAUSAU AREA IN MARATHON COUNTY AND IN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. AT 1204 PM CDT THE MARATHON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORM WILL TAKE IT TOWARD THE TOWNS OF BROKAW AND SUNSET OF NORTH CENTRAL MARATHON COUNTY AND THEN INTO SOUTHEAST LINCOLN COUNTY BY 1230 PM CDT. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE NOTED OVER NORTHWEST AND SOUoTHWEST MARATHON COUNTY. PERSONS IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS AS THEY MAY PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. ZAJDEL
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
WIZ004-007-161915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 115 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 115 PM CDT...WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO TAYLOR AND CLARK COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL WISCONISN. THE LINE WAS FROM NEAR THE TOWN OF DONALD IN WESTERN TAYLOR COUNTY...75 WEST NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU...TO NEAR HUMBIRD IN WESTERN CLARK COUNTY...70 SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING PERKINSTOWN IN CENTRAL TAYLOR COUNTY...AND NEILLSVILLE IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY BY 140 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. KOCHIS
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before
WIZ007-161945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 141 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER CLARK COUNTY... AT 135 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE NEILSVILLE AREA OF CLARK COUNTY...51 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU. THIS STORM HAS INTENSIFIED DURNG THE PAST 10 MINUTES AND IS MOVING EASTWARD AT 35 TO 40 MPH. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORT WITH THIS STORM...HOWEVER...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY AS THE STORM PASSES THROUGH THE NEILSVILLE...GRANTON AND LYNN AREAS BETWEEN NOW AND 200 PM CDT. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN CLARK COUTY SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS APPROACHING STORM. ZAJDEL
Special weather statement, May 16, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
WIZ007-162000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 152 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MARATHON AND WOOD COUNTIES... AT 152 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO MARATHON AND WOOD COUNTIES FROM CLARK AND TAYLOR COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE FROM NEAR COLBY IN WESTERN MARATHON COUNTY...35 WEST OF WAUSAU...SOUTHWEST WOOD COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE TOWN OF WAUSAU BY AROUND 220 PM...AND THE TOWN OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS BY AROUND 230 PM. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY STRONG WINDS...HAIL...AND TORENTIAL RAINS. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER. KOCHIS
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:45 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
WIZ010-011-015-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 245 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD NORTHWEST JUNEAU COUNTY... AT 230 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING RAPIDILY TOWARD NORTHWEST JUNEAU COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD ENTER THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF JUNEAU COUNTY BY 3 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS..BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SMALL TO MODERATE SIZED HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. SOME CITIES ABD TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE MATHER AND MEADOW VALLEY. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES..TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOONEY
Special weather statement, May 16, 2:54 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
WIZALL-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 300 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 900 PM THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE CENTRAL PART OF THE STATE...AND WILL INTENSIFY AS THEY MOVE EAST. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN...THE FOLLOWAING COUNTY IS INCLUDED IN TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 226...FOND DU LAC COUNTY. STAY TUNED TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO...OR COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR LATER STATEMENTS. J LAST
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon, Wood | 45 min |
| May 16, 2:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marathon | 39 min |
| May 16, 2:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Lincoln, Taylor | 30 min |
| May 16, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 50 min |
| May 16, 3:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon | 45 min |
| May 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 66 min |
| May 16, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 33 min |
| May 16, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon | 60 min |
| May 16, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MKX | Marathon, Portage, Wood | 3 hr |
| May 16, 6:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marathon | 51 min |
| May 16, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage, Wood | 48 min |
| May 16, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Wood | 37 min |
| May 16, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 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.