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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 19, 1992Juneau County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 1992, 2:02 PM CDT for Juneau County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 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: Jul 19, 1992, 2:02 PM CDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 1992, 2:45 PM CDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Juneau County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 19, 2:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	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, 7.0 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: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 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 191904
TORMSN
WIC057-191945-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
202 PM CDT SUN JUL 19 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...JUNEAU COUNTY
 
AT 200 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 35 MILES EAST OF LA
CROSSE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR INDICATED HAIL
WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.
 
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ARE NEW
LISBON...MAUSTON...NECEDAH AND VOLK FIELD.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKlBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
NOAH/PIERCE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 19, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Adams	43 min
Jul 19, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Richland	38 min
Jul 19, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Columbia, Dane	37 min
Jul 19, 5:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Dane, Green	32 min
Jul 19, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waupaca	39 min
Jul 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Rock	47 min
Jul 19, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waupaca	28 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.