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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 11, 1987Shawano County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 11, 1987, 9:03 PM CDT for Shawano County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 11, 1987, 9:03 PM CDT (02:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 11, 1987, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Shawano County, WI, Waupaca 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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 00:00Z on 1987-07-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2325 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1987-07-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 249 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2325 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1074 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
249 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.8

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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
Jul 12, 12:39 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBManitowoc36 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.