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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 23, 1986Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1986, 5:22 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 23, 1986, 5:22 PM CDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1986, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Sauk County, WI

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Peoria Regional, IL (KPIA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 308 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, Peoria Regional, IL at 12:00Z on 1986-06-23Temperature 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, Peoria Regional, IL at 12:00Z on 1986-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBColumbia, Green Lake, Marquette38 min
Jun 23, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDane75 min
Jun 23, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams, Columbia53 min

Nearby

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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.