Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1988, 3:03 PM CDT for Brown County, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 4, 1988, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1988, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, WI, Outagamie 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 595 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 985 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Aug 4, 12:42 PM CDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1240 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1988 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN SOUTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY.... AT 1230 PM CDT TWO STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY IN THE WITTENBURG AREA OR ABOUIT 25 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF SHAWANO. THIS STORM APPEAR TO BE INTENSIFING AND ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL TAKE THE STORMS BETWEEN KESHENA IN MENOMINEE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF SHAWANO IN SHAWANO COUNTY BY 130 OR 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE ADVISED THAT THESE STORMS MAY BRING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE HAIL AND THAT THEY SHOULD" BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER. WWI
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 130 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1988 .....THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD EAA CONVENTION... AT 130 PM CDT A THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSHKOSH JUST ENTERING SOUTHWESTERN WINNEBAGO COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE OSHKOSH AREA INCLUDING THE EAA CONVENTION BY AROUND 2 PM. PEOPLE IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY ALONG WITH PERSONS CONCERNED WITH THE EAA CONVENTTION SHOULD LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 1:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 145 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1988 .....THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY... AT 140 PM CDT RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CLINTONVILLE..45 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST TO NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE CLINTONVILLE AREA BY 155 PM CDT. AT 135 PM CDT THE WAUPACA COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT REPORTED HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH WITH THIS STORM IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF THE COUNTY NEAR IOLA. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN NORTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY AND SOUTH CENTRAL SHAWANO CbOUNTY SHOULD LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:18 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 215 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1988 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY... AT 215 PM CDT RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY JUST ENTERING THE CITY OF SHAWANO..40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN CENTRAL OCONTO BY 245 PM CDT. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG WINDS AND FREQvUENT LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN SHAWANO COUNTY..AND OCONTO OCONTO IN THE NEAR FUTURE SHOULD LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 2:21 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 215 PM CDT THU AUG 4 1988 .....STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY... AT 215 PM CDT RADAR SHOWS A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY JUST ENTERING THE CITY OF SHAWANO..40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN CENTRAL OCONTO COUNTY BY 245 PM CDT. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS..STRONG WINDS ANyD FREQUENT LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN SHAWANO COUNTY..AND OCONTO COUNTY IN THE NEAR FUTURE SHOULD LISTEN TO POSSIBLE LATER STATEMENTS. HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 60 min |
| Aug 4, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 35 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.