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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI

June 17, 1992Ozaukee County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT for Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 1992, 1:45 PM CDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1992, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Ozaukee County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 475 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 292 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 272 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 171846
TORMKE
WIC089-171915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
145 PM CDT WED JUN 17 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...OZAUKEE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN
 
 
AT 140 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY A SPOTTER IN CENTRAL OZAUKEE
COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF PORT WASHINGTON.
 
THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.  SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM INCLUDE SAUKVILLE...KNELLSVILLE AND PORT WASHINGTON.
 
THIS IS AN UPGRADE OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS
IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 12:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Portage	30 min
Jun 17, 12:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Jefferson	55 min
Jun 17, 12:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge	59 min
Jun 17, 12:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Dodge	62 min
Jun 17, 12:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington	62 min
Jun 17, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MKX	Walworth, Waukesha	64 min
Jun 17, 1:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee, Ozaukee	65 min
Jun 17, 2:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan, Washington	60 min
Jun 17, 2:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	63 min
Jun 17, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Ozaukee	43 min
Jun 17, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Milwaukee	30 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.