Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 8:25 AM CDT for Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 8:25 AM CDT (13:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Waupaca County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGRB 051326 RRA SVRGRB WIC135-051415- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 825 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...WAUPACA COUNTY AT 820 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF STEVENS POINT TO NEAR WILD ROSE IN NORTHERN WAUSHARA COUNTY. WILD ROSE IS ABOUT 40 MILES WEST OF APPLETON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT WESTERN WAUPACA COUNTY BY 830 AM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE OGDENSBURG...THE CITY OF WAUPACA...AND WEYAUWEGA. AS THE STORMS PASSED THROUGH WISCONSIN RAPIDS QUARTER-SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE 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. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. JJ/MM &
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, Jul 5, 5:07 AM CDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-051310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 508 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...DENSE FOG ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME PARTS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS ON THE MORNING COMMUTE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPID REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY WHEN DENSE FOG IS ENCOUNTERED. EXTRA CAUTION IS ESSENTIAL WHEN DRIVING IN FOGGY CO NDITIONS. ALWAYS USE LOW-BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND KEEP A GREATER THAN NORMAL DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR CAR AND THE VEHICLE AHEAD OF YOU. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 5:08 AM CDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-051310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 508 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...DENSE FOG ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... DENSE FOG HAS REDUCED VISIBILITIES TO NEAR ZERO IN SOME PARTS OF NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS MORNING. MOTORISTS ON THE MORNING COMMUTE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RAPID REDUCTIONS IN VISIBILITY WHEN DENSE FOG IS ENCOUNTERED. EXTRA CAUTION IS ESSENTIAL WHEN DRIVING IN FOGGY CONDITIONS. ALWAYS USE LOW-BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND KEEP A GREATER THAN NORMAL DISTANCE BETWEEN YOUR CAR AND THE VEHICLE AHEAD OF YOU. MOEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 56 min |
| Jul 5, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 48 min |
| Jul 5, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Kewaunee, Manitowoc | 39 min |
| Jul 5, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 29 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.