Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 5:41 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 19 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 5:41 PM CDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 1727 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 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 162241 SVRGRB WIC097-135-162330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 541 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...SOUTHEASTERN PORTAGE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...WAUPACA COUNTY AT 535 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF WAUPACA IN SOUTHEAST PORTAGE COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TOWNS OF OGDENSBURG...MANAWA...AND THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CITY OF WAUPACA CAN EXPECT GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS BY 615 PM. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED IN ALMOND. REMEMBER...TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. J LAST/KALLAS &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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, May 16, 5:30 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
529 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
500 PM CARTER WI 1 INCH HAIL
05/16/95 FOREST
MGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 10:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 21 min |
| May 16, 4:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 54 min |
| May 16, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 30 min |
| May 16, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 50 min |
| May 16, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Richland | 67 min |
| May 16, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 49 min |
| May 16, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 37 min |
| May 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 35 min |
| May 16, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 53 min |
| May 16, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 63 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.