Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 8, 1992, 6:41 PM CDT for Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 1992, 6:41 PM CDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 1992, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marathon County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 997 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 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 082340 SVRMKE WIC073-097-090045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 641 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...MARATHON COUNTY...PORTAGE COUNTY AT 636 PM HIGH WINDS WERE REPORTED JUST NORTH OF CARSON NEAR THE WISCONSIN RIVER NORTHWEST OF STEVENS POINT. THE HIGH WINDS DAMAGED A PIER AND PICKED UP A BOAT. STORNG WINDS WERE ALSO REPORTED AT 640 PM NORTH OF STEVENS POINT IN THE TOWN OF HULL. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN MARATHON COUNTY. 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. HENTZ &
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
Local storm report, Oct 8, 4:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
455 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992
WW# NONE ISSUED
TIMES ARE ESTIMATED...
330 PM CDT JUNEAU COUNTY...MAUSTON RADIO STATION WRJC CALLED IN THIS
REPORT ABOUT 430 PM (ACTUAL DAMAGE SUSTAINED UNKNOWN)
...4 FARM BUILDINGS AND 8 TREES HAD SOME DAMAGE 6 MILES
EAST SOUTHEAST OF MAUSTON.
...1 BARN AND 4 TREES HAD SOME DAMAGE ABOUT 1 MILE EAST
NORTHEAST OF MAUSTON.
EVENT LASTED ONLY ABOUT 3 SECONDS IN BOTH CASES.
345 PM CDT JUNEAU COUNTY...UNCONFIRMED TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF
MAUSTON NEAR THE JUNCTION OF COUNTY G AND HH. RELAYED BY
JUNEAU COUNTY SHERIFF. PUBLIC REPORT. GARAGE DAMAGE.
NOTE: NUMEROUS OTHER REPORTS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON INDICATED BRIEF
HEAVY RAINS AND NO HAIL OR IN SOME CASES PEA-SIZED HAIL.
NOAHSpecial weather statement, Oct 8, 5:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before
WIZ007-011-012-016-017-090015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 508 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 AT 505 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ROTATING NORTHWARD ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR MILWAUKEE NORTHWEST ACRROSS DODGE AND FOND DU LAC COUNTIES...THEN INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN NEAR WISCONSIN RAPIDS. SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER WESTERN DODGE COUNTY APPROACHING FOX LAKE 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST PORTAGE COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTH:EAST OF WISCOSNIN RAPIDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. IF THRATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING.
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 5:42 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
WIZ007-011-012-016-017-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 542 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 540 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO ROTATE NORTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF MILWAUKEE TO FOND DU LAC... THEN NORTHWEST TO NEAR WISCONSIN RAPIDS...THEN WEST TO NEAR EAU CLAIRE. IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN A THUNDERSTORM WHICH EARLIER PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PORTAGE AND SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY JUST SOUTHEASOF WISCONSIN RAPIDS. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MOST STORMS WERE IN THE FOND DU LAC...NORTHEAST DODGE AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM HAIL AS THE STORMS MOVE NORTH AND NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. IF THREATENING STORMS APPROACH SEEK SAFE SHELTER IN A ST`UDY BUILDING. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 5:46 PM CDT, 55 minutes before
WIZ007-011-012-016-017-082345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 542 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 540 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO ROTATE NORTHWARD THROUGH CENTRAL AND PARTS OF SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST NORTH OF MILWAUKEE TO FOND DU LAC... THEN NORTHWEST TO NEAR WISCONSIN RAPIDS...THEN WEST TO NEAR EAU CLAIRE. IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN A THUNDERSTORM WHICH EARLIER PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PORTAGE AND SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY JUST SOUTHEAST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS. IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN MOST STORMS WERE IN THE FOND DU LAC...NORTHEAST DODGE AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY AREA. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE FROM HAIL AS THE STORMS MOVE NORTH AND NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH. IF THREATENING STORMS APPROACH SEEK SAFE SvHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. HENTZ
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 6:18 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
WIZ012-013-016-017-019-0201-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 615 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 ...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING OVER SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 615 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WISCONSIN RAPIDS TO FOND DU LAC...WEST BEND AND MILWAUKEE. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH OR NORTHWEST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THROUGH 730 PM MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FROM AROUND MILWAUKEE NORTHWARD. AROUND 6 PM 1/2 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN WEST BEND AND VERY SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN THE MILWAUKEE AREA. MORE SMALL HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. DEADLY LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. SANDLER
Special weather statement, Oct 8, 6:34 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
WIZ012-013-090030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 634 PM CDT THU OCT 8 1992 AT 630 PM PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED FROM A DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHEAST SHEBOYGAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE PLYMOUTH SHEBOYGAN FALLS AND RANDOM LAKE AREAS THROUGH 715 PM. EXPECT HAIL GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS WITH THIS STORM. HENTZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 56 min |
| Oct 8, 6:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Portage | 33 min |
| Oct 8, 6:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 58 min |
| Oct 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Marathon | 37 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.