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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 16, 1992Menominee County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT for Menominee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1992, 3:45 PM CDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1992, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Menominee County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1992-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1992-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
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 KGRB 162045 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC078-162130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
345 PM CDT SAT MAY 16 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF WISCONSIN
      MENOMINEE

AT 340 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
NORTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY MOVING TOWARD MENOMINEE COUNTY.
THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH AND WILL
BE AFFECTING THE NEOPIT AREA BY 410 PM.

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAINS...STRONG GUSTY
WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

A TORNADO WATCH ISF 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.

ISAACSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBJuneau31 min
May 16, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano69 min
May 16, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Oconto55 min
May 16, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee, Oconto69 min
May 16, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano59 min
May 16, 6:50 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBMenominee, Shawano3 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.