Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 31, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 27, 1994, 10:52 PM CDT for Columbia County, Sauk County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 27, 1994, 10:52 PM CDT (03:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1994, 12:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Columbia County, WI, Sauk County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 1920 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 13.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMSN 280354 TORMSN WIC021-111-280500- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 1052 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...COLUMBIA COUNTY...SAUK COUNTY AT 1050 PM CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED SOUTH OF LYNDON STATION...OR 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF MADISON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE: IN SAUK COUNTY..LAKE DELTON..MIRROR LAKE STATE PARK IN COLUMBIA COUNTY...WISCONSIN DELLS..LEWISTON..PORTAGE THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.
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, Aug 27, 10:00 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
WIZ013-021-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1000 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN OCONTO COUNTY... AT 955 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TOWNSEND WHICH IS 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT LAKEWOOD AND THUNDER MOUNTAIN BY 1025 PM. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL AFFECT MIDDLE INLET...WAUSAUKEE... AND MCALLISTER BY 1055 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:03 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
WIZ013-021-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1000 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN OCONTO COUNTY... AT 955 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR TOWNSEND WHICH IS 65 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF GREEN BAY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT LAKEWOOD AND THUNDER MOUNTAIN BY 1025 PM. IF THE STORMS HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL AFFECT MIDDLE INLET...WAUSAUKEE... AND MCALLISTER BY 1055 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. SKOWRO NSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:15 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
WIZ037-048-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1015 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING WINNEBAGO COUNTY... AT 1010 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL WAUSHARA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF WAUTOMA...OR ABOUT 40 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING EUREKA...OMRO...AND WAUKAU BY 1030 PM. THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THESE STORMS WAS SHIFTING SOUTH. ALTHOUGH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY...THE RISK THAT THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN WAUPACA COUNTY HAS DIMINISHED. 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. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:19 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
WIZ037-048-280400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1015 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING WINNEBAGO COUNTY... AT 1010 PM...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL WAUSHARA COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF WAUTOMA...OR ABOUT 40 MILES WEST OF OSHKOSH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL BE AFFECTING EUREKA...OMRO...AND WAUKAU BY 1030 PM. THE STRONGEST PORTION OF THESE STORMS WAS SHIFTING SOUTH. ALTHOUGH STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN WAUPACA COUNTY...THE RISK THAT THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER IN WAUPACA COUNTY HAS DIMINISHED. 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. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:46 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
WIZ037-038-048>050-280450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1046 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WINNEBAGO COUNTY... AT 1040 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WINNECONNE...WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT APPLETON...NEENAH AND OSHKOSH BY 1115 PM AND THEN MOVE OVER LAKE WINNEBAGO. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AS OF 1040 PM. HOWEVER...STRONG WINDS TO 45 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. TO REDUCE THE RISK OF BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING...STAY AWAY FROM PLUMBING FIXTURES...APPLIANCES AND WINDOWS. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE. MOEDE
Special weather statement, Aug 27, 10:49 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
WIZ037-038-048>050-280450- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1046 PM CDT SAT AUG 27 1994 ...INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WINNEBAGO COUNTY... AT 1040 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER WINNECONNE...WHICH IS 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT APPLETON...NEENAH AND OSHKOSH BY 1115 PM AND THEN MOVE OVER LAKE WINNEBAGO. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED AS OF 1040 PM. HOWEVER...STRONG WINDS TO 45 MPH...HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED. TO REDUCE THE RISK OF BEING STRUCK BY LIGHTNING...STAY AWAY FROM PLUMBING FIXTURES...APPLIANCES AND WINDOWS. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE. MOEDE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 9:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Adams | 22 min |
| Aug 27, 9:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waushara | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 10:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Green Lake, Marquette | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 10:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 11:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Columbia, Green Lake | 33 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.