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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1994, 3:56 PM CDT for Langlade County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1994, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1994, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Langlade County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 082056 TORGRB WIC067-082130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 356 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...EASTERN LANGLADE COUNTY AT 350 PM FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE REPORTED NEAR WHITE LAKE...20 MILES EAST OF ANTIGO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWN OF HOLLISTER BY 400 PM. MOEDE DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A0 STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. &
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
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:28 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 328 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 320 PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING FROM RHINELANDER TO SHAWANO AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ENTERING SHAWANO COUNTY AND WILL AFFECT THE CITIES OF BONDUEL AND SHAWANO BY 400 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH...HAIL...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. 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. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:43 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-082145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 344 PM CDT FRI JUL 8 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 337 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER NAVARINO...25 MILES WEST OF GREEN BAY. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS TO 25 MPH. AS THE STORMS INTENSIFY...WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...HAIL...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN THIS AFTERNOON. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED. MOEDE
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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.