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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 6, 1994Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 1994, 6:53 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1994, 6:53 PM CDT (23:53 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Green Lake County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -29 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
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 062353
TORMSN
WIC047-070030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI
653 PM CDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...GREEN LAKE COUNTY
 
AT 650PM CDT A TORNADO WAS SPOTTED BY WEATHER SPOTTERS IN PRINCETON
MOVING TOWARDS THE NORTH..NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE TORNADO ARE...BERLIN.
 
 
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
SUCHx AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
STIMACH
 
 
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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, 1 hour 54 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDane60 min
Jul 6, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBColumbia, Green Lake60 min
Jul 6, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBSauk49 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.