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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 1, 1992Adams County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 1992, 6:35 PM CDT for Adams County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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
Aug 1, 1992, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 1992, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Adams County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 1, 6:50 PM CDTHail 1Adams, 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 12:00Z on 1992-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 117 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1162 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
139 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Aug 1, 6:28 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
WIZ005-008-009-012-013-020130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
630 PM CDT SAT AUG 1 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR
NORTHERN AND WESTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR FOREST...
LANGLADE...MENOMINEE...SHAWANO AND WAUPACA COUNTIES.

WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 6 PM WAS SHOWING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER
PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN FROM FOREST COUNTY 25 MILES EAST OF RHINELANDER
NEAR CRANDON...TO FLORENCE COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF IRON MOUNTAIN MICHIGAN NEAR
THE TOWNS OF FLORENCE AND SPREAD EAGLE.

OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
ANTIGO NEAR LAKEWOOD AND TOWNSEND...TO JUST NORTH OF MARINETTE...TO 15 MILES
NORTH OF STURGEON BAY NEAR EGG HARBOR AND JACKSONPORT IN THE DOOR PENINSULA.
THE STORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 TO 30 MPH

PElRSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY
CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES.

ISAACSON

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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.