Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT for Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1992, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1992, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shawano County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 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 152215
SVRGRB
WIC115-152315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
515 PM CDT WED APR 15 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF WISCONSIN
SHAWANO
AT 500 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 55 MILES NORTHWEST
OF GREEN BAY IN SOUTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF MARION
AND TIGERTON. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH.
SHAWANO COUNTY SHERIFF/S REPORTED 3/4 INCH HAIL FALLING AT TIGERTON
AND MARBLE SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR MARION.
THE STORM WILL BE IN THE ADAMS AREA BY 530 PM.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE FOR
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. ONCE
INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS
SHOULD AVOID LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
ISAACSON
EWhat 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, Apr 15, 5:00 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
WIZ005-008-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 500 PM CDT FRI APR 10 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAINS AND HAIL MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 455 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL WAS MOVING ACROSS SOUTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY NEAR MARION. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL BE IN THE SHAWANO AREA BY 530 PM. THESE STORMS WILL CREATE HEAVY RAINS...SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERSONS IN SHAWANO COUNTY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO AN INDOOR SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN COUNTY AROUND 6 PM. STAYED TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. ISAACSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 5:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 62 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.