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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 16, 1992Outagamie County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT for Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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 16, 1992, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1992, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Outagamie County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 16, 8:20 PM CDTTornado F1Outagamie, 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 30 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 38 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1992-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 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
38 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-185 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 16, 6:04 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-DDHHMM-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
605 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN UNTIL 9 PM...
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO RUMBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN...
...URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 7 PM FOR SHAWANO...OCONTO
AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES...

AT 555 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE
TO MOVE ACROSS PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN FROM 60 MILES NORTHWEST
OF GREEN BAY...OR NEAR MATTOON IN NORTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY...TO 40 MILES
NORTH OF GREEN BAY...OR NEAR PESHTIGO IN MARINETTE COUNTY.  THESE STORMS
CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL.  IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...
SEEK INDOOR SHELTER.
THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEING PRODUCED BY A STORM CENTER IN NORTHERN
MINNESOTA AND COLD FRONT MOVING INTO CENTRAL MINNESOTA EARLY THIS
EVENING.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME SEVERE...ARE LIKELY TONIGHT
ACROSS THE REGION.

TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN MILD FOR MID MAY...DROPPING ONLY INTO THE
60S BEFORE MIDNIGHT.  WINDS HOWEVER WILL REMAIN STRONG FROM THE SOUTH
AT SPEEDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH.

STAYED TUNED TO YOUR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES...WARNINGS
AND STATEMENTS.

ISAACSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBOutagamie30 min
May 16, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBBrown38 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.