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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 10, 1986Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1986, 5:43 PM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 10, 1986, 5:43 PM CDT (22:43 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1986, 6:15 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Columbia 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 150 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1986-09-10Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1986-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 305 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
541 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
320 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 KMSN 102243
SVRMSN
WIC021-102315-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
543 PM CDT WED SEP 10 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY OF

SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN...CENTRAL COLUMBIA

AT 525PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF LODI
WISCONSIN MOVING TOWARDS THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

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


 STIMACH

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, Sep 10, 3:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
340 PM CDT WED SEP 10 198

AT 335 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SHOWERS
MOVING TO NORTHEAST  WISCONSIN. THESE STORMS ARE IN AN AREA JUST WEST
OF THE CITY OF GREEN BAY AND THE FOX CITIES.

WITH THE HEAVY RAINS WHICH OCCURRED LAST NIGHT AND TODAY OVER MUCH
OF WISCONSIN COUPLED WITH THE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL WITH THESE STORMS..
PERSONS IN THE FOX CITIES..ALONG WITH GhREEN BAY..SHOULD BE AWARE OF
URBAN FLOODING WITHIN THE NEXT 2 HOURS.

PLEASE LISTEN TO FURTHER STATEMENTS ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO..TV AN YOUR
LOCAL RADIO.
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.