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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 26, 1992Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 26, 1992, 6:03 PM CDT for Marquette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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: Sep 26, 1992, 6:03 PM CDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 1992, 6:30 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Marquette County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Sep 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Marquette, 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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KMSN 262306
TORMSN
WIC077-262330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
603 PM CDT SAT SEP 26 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...SOUTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY
 
AT 557PM CDT A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT THE
JUNCTION OF COUNTY CX AND THE MARQUETTE/COLUMBIA COUNTY LINE...OR 41/2
MILES SOUTH OF ENDEAVOR. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST AT
25 MPH.
 
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO ARE...MONTELLO AND MECAN.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BURILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
STIMACH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 25, 7:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Winnebago	30 min
Sep 26, 6:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Columbia, Green Lake	51 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.