Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 27, 1991, 2:30 PM CST for Brown County, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1991, 2:30 PM CST (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1991, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Brown County, WI, Outagamie County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 11 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
- 1516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGRB 272030
TORGRB
WIC009-087-272100-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
230 PM CST WED MAR 27 1991
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF WISCONSIN
BROWN...OUTAGAMIE
APPLETON POLICE REPORTED TWO CONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUDS SIGHTED IN
THE CITY OF APPLETON WI AT 220 PM CST. 1 INCH HAIL HAS ALSO BEEN
REPORTED IN THE APPLETON AREA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT
40 TO 50 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTH INTO BROWN COUNTY BY 3 PM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE IS IN
A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...FIND SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO PROTECT YOUR BODY FROM FLYING DEBRIS. AVOID WINDOWS.
WWIWhat 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, Mar 27, 1:31 PM CST, 59 minutes before
WIZ-005-008-009-012-013-272000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 125 PM CST WED MAR 27 1991 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST-CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR A LARGE PART OF NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN UNTIL 8 PM... AT 115 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EAST CENTRAL EXTENDING INTO NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEAST WAUSHARA...NORTHERN MARQUETTE AND INTO NORTHERN GREEN LAKE COUNTY. ANOTHER AREA WAS LOCATED OVER WESTERN PORTAGE AND EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH WINNEBAGO...OUTAGAMIE AND CALUMET COUNTIES BETWEEN 130 AND 2 PM. THE OTHER AREA WILL MOVE THROUGH WAUPACA COUNTY BY 2 PM. HAIL...HEAVY RAINS AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY SOME OF THESE STORMS. REMEMBER...THE EN.TIRE AREA REMAINS UNDER A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 8PM. MECIKALSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 11:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 40 min |
| Mar 27, 1:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane, Green, Iowa | 38 min |
| Mar 27, 1:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 35 min |
| Mar 27, 1:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 49 min |
| Mar 27, 1:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 43 min |
| Mar 27, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane, Rock | 41 min |
| Mar 27, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Outagamie | 44 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 47 min |
| Mar 27, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 22 min |
| Mar 27, 3:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara | 37 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.