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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 10, 1993Brown County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1993, 1:07 PM CDT for Brown County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1993, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1993, 2:04 PM CDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Brown County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 9 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 1993-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 402 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1180 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 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 101809
TORGRB
WIC009-101915-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
107 PM CDT MON MAY 10 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...BROWN COUNTY
 
AT 1 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST BROWN
COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF HOLLAND MOVING TO THE NORTH AT ABOUT 30 MPH.
 
OTHER CITIES THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE DEPERE AND
GREEN BAY.
 
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM.
 
ISAACSON

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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.