Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 19, 1988, 6:52 PM CDT for Brown County, Kewaunee County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 19, 1988, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 19, 1988, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Sep 19, 5:48 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 545 PM CDT MON SEP 19 1988 ...COLD FRONT WITH VERY STRONG WINDS HEADING FOR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 540 PM CDT A COLD FRONT WITH VERY STRONG WINDS IS JUST ENTERING WAUPACA AND WINNEBAGO COUNTIES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THIS INTENSE COLD FRONT. IN ADDITION WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITH THIS FRONT CAUSING DAMAGE IN SOME AREAS OF SOUTH CEKNTRAL WISCONSIN. PERSONS IN WAUPACA AND WINNEBAGO COUNTIES SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE VERY STRONG WINDS FROM 540 PM TO 615 PM. PERSONS IN ALL OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN CAN EXPECT THIS COLD FRONT SOMETIME AFTER 615 PM CDT. HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Adams, Waushara | 47 min |
| Sep 19, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca | 59 min |
| Sep 19, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 40 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988
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.