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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 3, 1988Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1988, 4:56 PM CDT for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 min. 1 report 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
Aug 3, 1988, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1988, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Manitowoc 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 3, 5:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 0Manitowoc, 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 54 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 1988-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 357 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 1988-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
357 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-224 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 032204 COR
TORGRB
WIC071-032300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
456 PM CDT WED AUG 3 1988

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO
AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF WISCONSIN
      SOUTHERN MANITOWOC

...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTY JUST MENTIONED

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN MANITOWOC COUNTY.
A TORNADO WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY
IN SILVER CREEK NEAR RANDOM LAKE.

  BB

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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.