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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 15, 1986Adams County, Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1986, 2:45 PM CDT for Adams County, Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1986, 2:45 PM CDT (19:45 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1986, 3:15 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Adams County, WI, Juneau 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

Minneapolis, MN (KSTC), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 307 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1986-07-15Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 1986-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSN 151947 COR
SVRMSN
WIC001-057-152115-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...TIME EFFECTIVE CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
245 PM CDT TUE JUL 15 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES OF

SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...CENTRAL ADAMS AND CENTRAL JUNEAU

AT 230PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM SPARTA IN
MONROE COUNTY TO ELROY IN JUNEAU COUNTY MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST..
SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU..BE ALERT FOR DAMAGING WINDS..
LARGE HAIL..AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO...YOUR LOCAL RADIOT OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
  STIMACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarquette, Waushara53 min
Jul 15, 3:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBColumbia, Sauk53 min
Jul 15, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWinnebago58 min
Jul 15, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBDane, Iowa28 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.