Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 1992, 11:04 PM CDT for Taylor County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 9, 1992, 11:04 PM CDT (04:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1992, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 3346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 896 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 16.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKE 100406 SVRMKE WIC119-100500- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1104 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...TAYLOR COUNTY AT 1100 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN RUSK COUNTY...ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARK FALLS. AT 1030 PM...LARGE TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN NEAR THE TOWN OF TONY IN EASTERN RUSK COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH THE TOWNS OF JUMP RIVER...DONALD AND HANNIBAL BY 1130 PM. 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. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF YOU ARE CAMPING...MOVE TO A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY...UNTIL THE STORM PASSES 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, Aug 9, 9:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
WIZ001>005-100600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1000 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHERN THIRD OF WISCONSIN... A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 200 AM... AND IN EFFECT FOR NORTH-CENTRAL AND THE FAR NORTHEAST UNTIL 300 AM MONDAY MORNING. AT 955 PM...WEATHER RADAR AND SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED A LONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM IRONWOOD MICHIGAN TO SIOUX FALLS SOUTH DAKOTA. SOME OF THESE STORMS...PARTICULARLY THOSE IN WISCONSIN...HAVE PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER...INCLUDING TORNADOES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL AFFECT NORTH-CENTRAL PARTS OF THE BADGER STATE BETWEEN 1000 PM AND 100 AM...AND THE NORTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS IF A WEATHER WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. J LAST
Special weather statement, Aug 9, 10:58 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
WIZ004-007-100600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1055 PM CDT SUN AUG 9 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHWEST WISCONSIN UNTIL 2 AM... ...TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN WISCONSIN UNTIL 3 AM... AT 1050 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER OVER PARTS OF CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN NORTHWEST WISCONSIN. MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WERE TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MPH. STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO TAYLOR COUNTY BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT. STORMS WILL LIKELY ENTER PARTS OF CLARK AND LINCOLN COUNTIES ALSO DURING THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THIS IS A VOLITILE WEATHER SITUATION TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE ...AND HAVE HAD...THE CAPABILITY OF BECOME SEVERE. IT THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. ^ STUREY
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.