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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Green Bay, WI

April 8, 1991Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 8, 1991, 3:48 PM CDT for Green County, Rock County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 8, 1991, 3:48 PM CDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Apr 8, 1991, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Green County, WI, Rock County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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 1991-04-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1991-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 38 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 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 KMSN 082048
SVRMSN
WIC045-105-082130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
348 PM CDT MON APR 8 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...EASTERN GREEN COUNTY...ROCK COUNTY
 
AT 340PM CDT A SEVER THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
NEW GLARUS OR 25 MILES SOUTH..SOUTHWEST OF MADISON MOVING TO THE
EAST AT 25 MPH.
 
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE STORM WERE...ATTICA AND EVANSVILLE.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
STIMACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 8, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBRichland, Sauk43 min
Apr 8, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBColumbia48 min
Apr 8, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBGreen, Rock45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.