Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1986
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1986, 5:56 PM CDT for Outagamie County, Waupaca County, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1986, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1986, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Outagamie County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Winnebago 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 1209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 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 KGRB 242256 SVRGRB WIC135-139-087-242345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 556 PM CDT THU JUL 24 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...WAUPACA...WINNEBAGO AND OUTAGAMIE RADAR INDICATED A AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHWEST OUTAGAMIE THROUGH WAUPAC A COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A BASEMENT..INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR IS THE SAFEST PLACE IN MOST BUILDINGS. H
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:12 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 505 PM CDT THU JUL 24 1986 AT 500 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN MARINETTE COUNTY..THROUGH NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY..CENTRAL MENOMINEE COUNTY..TO WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY. AT 455 PM CDT THE SHAWANO COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED STRONG WINDS.. BRIEF HEAVY DOUNPOURS AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTING.& PERSONS IN THE AREA OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD LISTEN TO LATER STATEMENTS. TH
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 5:32 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 525 PM CDT THU JUL 24 1986 AT 520 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. THIS LINE EXTENDED FROM NORTHERN MARINETTE COUNTY..CENTRAL OCONTO COUNTY..SOUTHERN MENOMINEE COUNTY.. CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY..TO WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY. AT 515 PM CDT THE WAUPACA COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED STRONG WINDS ESTIMATED AT 30 TO 40 MPH ALONG WITH HEAVY DOUNPOURS IN THE TOWN OF IOLA. AT 525 PM CDT A HAM RADIO OPERATOR NORTH OF THE CITY OF SHAWANO IN SHAWANO COUNTY REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT MOST OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN WITHIN TH8E HOUR. PERSONS SHOULD LISTEN TO LATER STATEMENTS. TH
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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.