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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 6, 1995Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 8:17 PM CDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 154 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1314 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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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, Sep 6, 6:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
600 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

530 PM     ST. GERMAIN               WI   1.50 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   VILAS

532 PM     LAKE TOMAHAWK             WI   0.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   ONEIDA

541 PM     EAGLE RIVER               WI   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   VILAS                          QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN THE ST. GERMAIN AND EAGLE
                                          RIVER AREAS.

KIECKBUSCH
                                          WIND DRIVEN HAIL (SIZE
                                          UNKNOWN) CAUSED SMALL DENTS
                                          ON A VAN.

440 AM     MERRILL                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/28/95   LINCOLN                        NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN...SOME ON HOUSES AND
                                          VEHICLES. HEAVY RAIN WASHED
                                          OUT PARTS OF ROADS.

505 AM     HAMBURG                   WI   1.00 INCH HAIL
08/28/95   MARATHON

515 AM     WAUSAU                    WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/28/95   MARATHON                       SCATTERED TREES DOWN IN AND
                                          AROUND WAUSAU VICINITY.

535 AM     MOSINEE                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/28/95   MARATHON                       TREE DOWN ON HWY 153 AND
                                          WESTERN AVE.

735 AM     OSHKOSH                   WI   65 MPH WIND GUST
08/28/95   WINNEBAGO

752 AM     OSHKOSH                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/28/95   WINNEBAGO                      LIGHT PLANE BLOWN INTO WINDOW
                                          OF EAA MUSEUM. DAMAGE
                                          ESTIMATE OF $200.

KIECKBUSCH
Local storm report, Sep 6, 6:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
600 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

530 PM     ST. GERMAIN               WI   1.50 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   VILAS

532 PM     LAKE TOMAHAWK             WI   0.75 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   ONEIDA

541 PM     EAGLE RIVER               WI   1.00 INCH HAIL
09/06/95   VILAS            h              QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED
                                          IN THE ST. GERMAIN AND EAGLE
                                          RIVER AREAS.

KIECKBUSCH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln32 min
Sep 6, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest42 min
Sep 6, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade42 min
Sep 6, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon50 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.