Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1994, 2:38 PM CDT for Menominee County, Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1994, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1994, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 241940 SVRGRB WIC067-078-083-242030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN LANGLADE COUNTY...MENOMINEE COUNTY ...NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY AT 235 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR THE TOWN OF LILY...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF ANTIGO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE NEOPIT...WHITE LAKE...AND MOUNTAIN. THESE TOWNS SHUD BE AFFECTED BY 300 PM. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM IS OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. SKOWRONSKI
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, 1 hour 26 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, 49 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
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 2:19 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
WIZ021-242015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 215 PM CDT SUN APR 24 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY... AT 210 PM...RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN LANGLADE COUNTY NEAR SUMMIT LAKE OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF ANTIGO. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER...IT WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY NEAR TOWNSEND AND LAKEWOOD BY 245 PM. RWHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. SKOWRONSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 1:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Langlade | 48 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.