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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 20, 1987Menominee County, Oconto County, Shawano County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT for Menominee County, Oconto County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 20, 1987, 1:18 PM CDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 20, 1987, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Shawano County, WI

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 20, 1:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Shawano, WI
Jul 20, 1:53 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Oconto, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3840 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 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 KGRB 201818
SVRGRB
WIC078-083-115-201915-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
118 PM CDT MON JUL 20 1987

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...MENOMINEE...OCONTO AND WESTERN SHAWANO

AT 110 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
OVER THESE AREAS AND MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN
HOUR.
WIND GUSTS AT CENTRAL WISCONSIN AIRPORT IN MARATHON COUNTY WERE
87 MILES AN HOUR.

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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Outagamie	58 min
Jul 20, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown	57 min
Jul 20, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door, Kewaunee	62 min
Jul 20, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	58 min
Jul 20, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie	53 min
Jul 20, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Calumet, Winnebago	62 min
Jul 20, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown	62 min
Jul 20, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Outagamie	49 min
Jul 20, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Kewaunee, Manitowoc	49 min
Jul 20, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Adams, Juneau	56 min
Jul 20, 4:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano, Waupaca	60 min
Jul 20, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Green Lake, Marquette	54 min
Jul 20, 4:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Columbia, Sauk	41 min
Jul 20, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Dane	54 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.