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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 17, 1988Marinette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1988, 12:14 PM CDT for Marinette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 17, 1988, 12:14 PM CDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 17, 1988, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Marinette 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1988-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 402 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 12:00Z on 1988-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 46 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
954 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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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 17, 11:28 AM CDT, 46 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1125 AM CDT WED AUG 17 1988

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 5PM CDT FOR MUCH
   OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN FOREST AND MARINETTE COUNTIES...

AT 1120 AM CDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS FOREST AND
CENTRAL MARINETTE COUNTIES.  THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED ABOUT
10 TO 15 MILES WEST OF CRANDON IN FOREST COUNTY AND ABOUT 15 MILES WEST
OF CRIVITZ IN MARINETTE COUNTY.

THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME..PERSONS IN
PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT HEAVY RAIN..POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL
STRONG WINDS.

BRUSKY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 12:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor61 min
Aug 17, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Calumet, Outagamie, Shawano57 min
Aug 17, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBManitowoc59 min
Aug 17, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBKewaunee61 min
Aug 17, 5:07 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBCalumet, Manitowoc38 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.