Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1991, 1:07 PM CDT for Langlade County, Menominee County, Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min. 3 reports 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
- May 28, 1991, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1991, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Langlade County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 1:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Langlade, WI | |
| May 28, 1:35 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Langlade, WI | |
| May 28, 2:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Oconto, 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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, May 28, 7:35 AM CDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 28, 12:23 PM CDT, 44 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-281800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1215 PM CDT TUE MAY 28 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 5 PM CDT... A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 50 TO 55 MPH. NORTHEAST AND EAST- CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL BE EXPERIENCING THESE THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES...THE BAY OF GREEN BAY AND ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR. PLH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence, Forest | 64 min |
| May 27, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 39 min |
| May 28, 1:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano, Waupaca | 68 min |
| May 28, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 14 min |
| May 28, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee | 14 min |
| May 28, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto | 54 min |
| May 28, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Outagamie, Shawano | 54 min |
| May 28, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Brown | 31 min |
| May 28, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Door | 31 min |
| May 28, 3:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Kewaunee | 56 min |
| May 28, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Kewaunee | 38 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.