Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1992, 6:09 PM CDT for Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1992, 6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 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, 11.2 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
- 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 162311 TORMKE WIC073-170000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 609 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...MARATHON COUNTY AT 605 PM...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS REPORTED TO HAVE TOUCHED DOWN NEAR STRATFORD...25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUSAU. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT NEARLY 40 MILES AN HOUR. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM INCLUDE...HALDER AND ROTHSCHILD. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. 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 | Wood | 26 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, 6:12 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 |
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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.