Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1993, 3:14 PM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1993, 3:14 PM CDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1993, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 750 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 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 082014 TORMKE WIC097-141-082100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 314 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...PORTAGE COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN WOOD COUNTY AT 310 PM CDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING JUST SOUTH OF NEKOOSA IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL BE HEADED INTO SOUTHWEST PORTAGE COUNTY SHORTLY. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH ARE KELLNER...BANCROFT AND PLOVER. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED JUST SOUTH OF NEKOOSA AT 312 PM. ANOTHER STRONG STORM OVER NORTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR JORDAN...ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF STEVENS POINT. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. DAVIS &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Walworth | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 1:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 47 min |
| Jun 8, 2:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Portage, Wood | 27 min |
| Jun 8, 3:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 19 min |
| Jun 8, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Portage | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Marathon, Portage | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 30 min |
| Jun 8, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 28 min |
| Jun 8, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Wood | 43 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.