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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 6, 1994Sauk County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1994, 5:56 PM CDT for Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1994, 5:56 PM CDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1994, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSN 062256
TORMSN
WIC111-062345-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
556 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...SAUK COUNTY
 
AT 554 PM CDT A SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO AT SPRING GREEN OR 35 MILES
WEST OF MADISON. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN
HOUR.
 
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ARE SPRING GREEN...BLACK HAWK...
WITWEN...DENZER...BLUFFVIEW...DEVILS LAKE STATE PARK
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
PIERCE
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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 4:59 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
500 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994

ATTN SELS...

WEATHER EVENTS OF JULY 5 1994 /LATE AND ADDITIONAL REPORTS/

TIME          COUNTY      LOCATION                 EVENT

1000 AM CDT   CALUMET     CHILTON AREA             MARBLE AND BASEBALL
                          /18 E OSH/               SIZE HAIL.  MINOR
                                                   PROPERTY DAMAGE
                        l                           REPORTED.

ISAACSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Dane	60 min
Jul 6, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Columbia, Green Lake	60 min
Jul 6, 6:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Green Lake	37 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.