Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 9:57 AM CDT for Calumet County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 10:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Calumet County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 45 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 TTAA00 KGRB 051458 SVRGRB WIC015-071-051545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 957 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...CALUMET COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...MANITOWOC COUNTY AT 955 AM...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF NEENAH OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF APPLETON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY AFFECT STOCKBRIDGE AND POTTER IN CALUMET COUNTY THROUGH 1020 AM...THEN PUSH INTO MANITOWOC COUNTY BY 1030 AM. THE STORM SHOULD REACH THE CITY OF MANITOWOC BY 1045 AM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM CAN EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. z 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, 4 hours 50 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, 4 hours 49 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
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 9:07 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
WIZ031-038-039-048-049-051510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 905 AM CDT TUE JUL 5 1994 AT 9 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY...THROUGH CENTRAL WAUPACA COUNTY TO EXTREME NORTHEAST WINNEBAGO COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR POY SIPPI IN EASTERN WAUSHARA COUNTY OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF APPLETON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY REACH THE FOX CITIES BY 10 AM. ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS...PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS CAN EXPECT TORRENTIAL RAINS...SOME SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A THUNDERSTORM IS IN A STURDY BUILDING. IF POSSIBLE...MOVE TO SHELTER BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN AN OPEN FIELD...STAY AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS SUCH AS LONE TREES. JUSKIE
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, 8:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 50 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.