Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1992, 3:57 PM CDT for Adams County, Juneau County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 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 25, 1992, 3:57 PM CDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1992, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adams County, WI, Juneau County, WI, Sauk County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 56 | Sauk, 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 25, 2:37 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
WIZ008-252015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 235 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 235 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE CITY OF WAUPACA...OR ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF APPLETON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS WAUPACA COUNTY. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ROYALTON...MANAWA...AND ODENSBURG. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOV E TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. ONCE INSIDE... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. . SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 2:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
WIZ008-252030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 245 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 245 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL SHAWANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. THEY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SHAWANO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES BY 330 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE GRESHAM...RED RIVER...AND KESHENA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF@ YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:08 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
WIZ008-252100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 305 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 305 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN SOUTHERN SHAWANO COUNTY...OR ABOUT 45 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SHAWANO AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES BY 400 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE SHAWANO...RED RIVER...AND THORNTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YO~U ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 25, 3:21 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
WIZ008-252115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 320 PM CDT TUE AUG 25 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN WAUPACA COUNTY... AT 320 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REDEVELOPING IN WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY...OR ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SOME HAIL. THE STORMS WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY BY 415 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE OGDENSBURG AND CLINTONVILLE. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DANGEROUS. IF YOU ARE IN THEIR PATH...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SKOWRONSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette, Waushara | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca, Winnebago | 63 min |
| Aug 25, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Winnebago | 43 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.