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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 16, 1992Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 3:44 PM CDT for Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 min. 2 reports 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, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
Expired: May 16, 1992, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Juneau County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 16, 3:50 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Juneau, WI
May 16, 4:05 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Juneau, 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSN 162047
SVRMSN
WIC057-162115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
344 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...NORTHERN JUNEAU COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
WYEVILLE WISCONSIN OR ABOUT 30 MILES EAST OF LACROSSE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT AROUND 40 MILES AN HOUR.  STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL UP TO ONE INCH
IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.  SOME CITIES IN THE PATH
OF THE STORM ARE MATHER AND MEADOW VALLEY.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee	45 min
May 16, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano	69 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	55 min
May 16, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee, Oconto	69 min
May 16, 6:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano	59 min
May 16, 6:50 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Menominee, Shawano	3 hr

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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.