Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1994, 1:57 PM CDT for Forest County, Langlade County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1994, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1994, 2:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 1:12 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
WIZ011>013-242010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 110 PM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 1PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FOREST AND MARINETTE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORM APPEARED TO BE NEAR CRANDON IN FOREST COUNTY OR 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RHINDELANDER. A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM RHINDLANDER EAST THRU FOREST COUNTY AND INTO MARINETTE COUNTY. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN FOREST AND CENTRAL MARINETTE COUNTY CAN EXPECTED THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH. HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR RHINDELANDER ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE HAIL UP TO 1/2 INCH AND VERY HEAVY RAINS ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...EXPECT STRONG WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARJE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. ONCE INSIDE... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PLH
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 1:49 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
WIZ011-019-242050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 145 PM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE ENTERING FAR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 145 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR BLOOMVILLE IN EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF RHINELANDER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE INTENSIFYING AND WILL AFFECT LANGLADE AND SOUTHERN FOREST COUNTY BY 245 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORMS INCLUDE SUMMIT LAKE AND MOLE LAKE. THESE STORMS ARE BEING CLOSELY MONITORED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FOR A POSSIBLE WARNING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...REMAIN ALERT FOR POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS... AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF THREATENING WEATHER DEVELOPS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR LANGLADE COUNTY UNTIL 500 PM. JS/PLH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Oconto | 52 min |
| Apr 24, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade | 37 min |
| Apr 24, 3:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 53 min |
| Apr 24, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Brown | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Kewaunee | 29 min |
| Apr 24, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Juneau | 47 min |
| Apr 24, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Adams | 27 min |
| Apr 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Marquette | 59 min |
| Apr 24, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano, Waupaca | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.