Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1994, 3:03 PM CDT for Iowa County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 1994, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1994, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iowa County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 232 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 690 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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, Aug 19, 2:13 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 213 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 210 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU...NEAR MERRILL...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WINDS TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY AND ANIWA IN SHAWANO COUNTY. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE BEING MONITORED AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THIS AFTERNOON. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:15 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 213 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 210 PM INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 15 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAU...NEAR MERRILL...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. SMALL HAIL...WINDS TO 40 MPH AND HEAVY RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY AND ANIWA IN SHAWANO COUNTY. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...THESE STORMS ARE BEING MONITORED AND MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS THIS AFTERNOON. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:38 PM CDT, 25 minutes before
WIZ019-192040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY... AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF MERRILL OR 30 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF ANTIGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY 3 PM AND BE NEAR ANTIGO BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION. WWUS35KTLH .U
Special weather statement, Aug 19, 2:40 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
WIZ019-192040- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CDT FRI AUG 19 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY... AT 235 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF MERRILL OR 30 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF ANTIGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY 3 PM AND BE NEAR ANTIGO BY 330 PM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE IN WESTERN LANGLADE COUNTY SHOULD BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 68 min |
| Aug 19, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa, Richland, Sauk | 52 min |
| Aug 19, 12:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 1:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Iowa | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Rock | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Green, Rock | 74 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Outagamie, Waupaca | 50 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.