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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 13, 1994Marinette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 13, 1994, 4:28 PM CDT for Marinette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 13, 1994, 4:28 PM CDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Sep 13, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Marinette County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1994-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 58 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1994-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 191 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-149 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1203 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
187 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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, Sep 13, 3:35 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
WIZ011-013-019-132140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
335 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...

AT 330 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM WABENO IN FOREST COUNTY TO NEAR ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS CENTRAL MARINETTE AND INTO EASTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY
415 PM.  SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
INCLUDE WAUSAUKEE...MOUNTAIN AND LANGLADE.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING
IN LOW LYING AREAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
Special weather statement, Sep 13, 3:38 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
WIZ011-013-019-132140-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
335 PM CDT TUE SEP 13 1994

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...

AT 330 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING
FROM WABENO IN FOREST COUNTY TO NEAR ANTIGO IN LANGLADE COUNTY.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS CENTRAL MARINETTE AND INTO EASTERN LANGLADE COUNTY BY
415 PM.  SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OTF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
INCLUDE WAUSAUKEE...MOUNTAIN AND LANGLADE.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS THAT MAY CAUSE MINOR FLOODING
IN LOW LYING AREAS DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee, Oconto50 min
Sep 13, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto, Shawano47 min
Sep 13, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor, Kewaunee42 min
Sep 13, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Outagamie42 min
Sep 13, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOutagamie, Waupaca50 min
Sep 13, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBJuneau80 min
Sep 13, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams83 min

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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.