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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 16, 1992Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at May 16, 1992, 6:23 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1992, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1992, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
37 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, 11.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1992-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1992-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKE 162324
TORMKE
WIC141-170000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
623 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
 
   ...NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM...A CONFIRMED TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR MARSHFIELD IN NORTHERN
WOOD COUNTY...WHICH IS 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS. THIS
TORNADO IS HEADED TOWARD THE HEWITT AND AUBURNDALE AREAS.
 
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 AVAIL8ABLE...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.
 
JOHNSTON/ZAJDEL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon, Wood45 min
May 16, 2:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXMarathon39 min
May 16, 2:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXLincoln, Taylor30 min
May 16, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWood26 min
May 16, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXPortage50 min
May 16, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon45 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXPortage66 min
May 16, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXWood33 min
May 16, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarathon60 min
May 16, 5:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMKXMarathon, Portage, Wood3 hr
May 16, 6:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXMarathon51 min
May 16, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXPortage, Wood48 min
May 16, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXPortage47 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.