Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 4, 1994, 4:23 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1994, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1994, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 52 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, 9.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 284 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 KMSN 042126 TORMSN WIC047-042215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MADISON WI 423 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MADISON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...GREEN LAKE COUNTY A SPOTTER HAS REPORTED A FUNNEL WEST OF LAKE TUCKAWAY NEAR THE TOWN OF MARQUETTE...37 MILES WSW OF OSHKOSH. IT WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 40 MPH. PERSONS LIVING IN THE TOWNS OF MARQUETTE..PRINCETON AND GREEN LAKE SHOULD SEEK SHELTER NOW. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITUR2E. 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. MC MAHON
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 4, 4:05 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-503-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 405 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 400 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NEAR EAU CLAIRE TO SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN JUST WEST OF MILWAUKEE. THE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL PUSH INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE OSHKOSH AREA BY 415 PM...AND THE FOX CITIES AND GREEN BAY AREAS BY 500 PM. BOATERS ON INLAND LAKES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:05 PM CDT, 18 minutes before
WIZ011>013-019>022-031-037>040-048>050-503-042300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 405 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... AT 400 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN NEAR EAU CLAIRE TO SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN JUST WEST OF MILWAUKEE. THE WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL PUSH INTO NORTHEAST WISCONSIN DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS SHOULD REACH THE OSHKOSH AREA BY 415 PM...AND THE FOX CITIES AND GREEN BAY AREAS BY 500 PM. BOATERS ON INLAND LAKES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD HEAD FOR SHORE BEFORE THE STORMS ARRIVE. SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:19 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
WIZ049-050-042230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 420 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 415 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF FOND DU LAC. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL PUSH ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST CALUMET COUNTY AND INTO MANITOWOC COUNTY BY 500 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE NEW HOLSTEIN...KEIL...SCHOOL HILL..AND CLEVELAND. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH 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. . SKOWRONSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:20 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
WIZ049-050-042230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 420 PM CDT MON JUL 4 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... AT 415 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF THE CITY OF FOND DU LAC. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH...AND WILL PUSH ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHEAST CALUMET COUNTY AND INTO MANITOWOC COUNTY BY 500 PM. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE NEW HOLSTEIN...KEIL...SCHOOL HILL..AND CLEVELAND. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH 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. . SKOWRONSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Dane, Green | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane, Green | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 2:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane | 17 min |
| Jul 4, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Columbia, Sauk | 43 min |
| Jul 4, 3:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Columbia | 42 min |
| Jul 4, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waushara | 38 min |
| Jul 4, 5:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 36 min |
| Jul 4, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Dane | 43 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.