Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 28, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT for Forest County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 28, 1994, 6:22 PM CDT (23:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 1994, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forest County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 2.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 282326 TORGRB WIC041-290000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 622 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOREST COUNTY AT 620 PM A TORNADO WAS SIGHTED 2 MILES SOUTH OF CRANDON IN FOREST COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO INCLUDE LAONA AND BLACKWELL. 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. MOEDE &
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, Jun 28, 1:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before
WIZ022-503-281955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 150 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE DOOR PENINSULA TO THE BAY DE NOC... AT 145 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE DOOR PENINSULA ACROSS THE NORTHERN BAY OF GREEN BAY TO LITTLE BAY DE NOC NEAR ESCANABA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER DOOR COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF FISH CREEK AND OFF THE UPPER MICHIGAN TOWN OF CEDAR RIVER... ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENOMINEE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE DOOR PENINSULA AND THE NORTHERN BAY BY 330 PM. YOU CAN EXPECT HEAVY SHOWERS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. BOATERS ON THE BAY OF GREEN BAY AND LITTLE BAY DE NOC SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK PORT BEFORE THE STORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 1:54 PM CDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
WIZ022-503-281955- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 150 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE DOOR PENINSULA TO THE BAY DE NOC... AT 145 PM CDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE DOOR PENINSULA ACROSS THE NORTHERN BAY OF GREEN BAY TO LITTLE BAY DE NOC NEAR ESCANABA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER DOOR COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF FISH CREEK AND OFF THE UPPER MICHIGAN TOWN OF CEDAR RIVER... ABOUT 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENOMINEE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE DOOR PENINSULA AND THE NORTHERN BAY BY 330 PM. YOU CAN EXPECT HEAVY SHOWERS...GUSTY WINDS...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL WITH THESE STORMS. BOATERS ON THE BAY OF GREEN BAY AND LITTLE BAY DE NOC SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS AND SEEK PORT BEFORE THE STORMS REACH YOUR LOCATION.
Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
WIZ038-039-048-282305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 504 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 500 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PULASKI...16 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY...TO JUST WEST OF APPLETON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THOUGH GREEN BAY...KAUKAUNA...LITTLE CHUTE AND APPLETON BY 600 PM. HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. 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, Jun 28, 5:07 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
WIZ038-039-048-282305- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 504 PM CDT TUE JUN 28 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS RUMBLING THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 500 PM RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM PULASKI...16 MILES NORTHWEST OF GREEN BAY...TO JUST WEST OF APPLETON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THOUGH GREEN BAY...KAUKAUNA...LITTLE CHUTE AND APPLETON BY 600 PM. HEAVY RAIN...LIGHTNING...AND WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THE PASSAGE OF THESE STORMS. 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
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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.