Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 14, 1991, 7:17 PM CDT for Adams County, Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 1991, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 1991, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, WI, Marquette County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 555 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 654 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 108 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
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 tornado 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 14, 6:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
WIZ008-142345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 600 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SHAWANO AND WAUPACA COUNTIES... AT 555 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY NEAR WITTENBERG AND EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO PORTAGE COUNTY NEAR AMHERST JUNCTION. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO CENTAL SHAWANO COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF SHAWANO AND EXTEND TO WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF WAUPACA BY 630 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAINS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
Special weather statement, Sep 14, 6:39 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
WIZ008-150030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 640 PM CDT SAT SEP 14 1991 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SHAWANO AND WAUPACA COUNTIES... AT 635 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CITY OF SHAWANO IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT AROUND 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE TO CENTRAL OCONTO...NORTHERN BROWN AND OUTAGAMIE COUNTIES BY 730 PM. THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT IN SHAWANO COUNTY REPORTED HEAVY RAINS AND WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED TO 35 MILES AN HOUR AT TIGERTON AT 625 PM. THE CITY OF SHAWANO HAS ALSO HAD POWER OUTAGES DUbE TO LIGHTNING STRIKES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR...HEAVY RAINS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. YOU SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 9:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane, Green, Rock | 57 min |
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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.