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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 16, 1995Door County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 5:54 PM CDT for Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 6:31 PM CDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Door County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 162255
SVRGRB
WIC029-WIZ503-LMZ501-162345-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
554 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...THE SOUTHERN HALF OF DOOR COUNTY
 
  AND FOR THE ADJACENT WATERS OF
 
  ...LAKE MICHIGAN
 
AT 550 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF STURGEON BAY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH
AND WILL PRODUCE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS.
 
THE TOWNS OF BRUSSELS...MAPLEWOOD...AND THE SOUTH SIDE OF STURGEON BAY
WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM THROUGH 615 PM.  THE STORM WILL MOVE OVER
THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN OFF DOOR COUNTY BY 625 PM.
 
BOATERS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR AT ONC.E.
DANGEROUS WINDS AND WAVES MAY DEVELOPE RAPIDLY.
 
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, 24 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

MG
Local storm report, May 16, 5:46 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
546 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995

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

530 PM     NEAR PENSAUKEE            WI   DIME SIZE HAIL
05/16/95   OCONTO

535 PM     2 NW ALMOND               WI   GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
05/16/95   PORTAGE

535 PM     2 S PENSAUKEE             WI   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/16/95   OCONTO                         HAIL COVERED HALF OF GROUND

MG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 10:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto21 min
May 16, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams, Juneau54 min
May 16, 4:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest30 min
May 16, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto50 min
May 16, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBRichland67 min
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage19 min
May 16, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaupaca49 min
May 16, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage35 min
May 16, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano53 min
May 16, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaupaca63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.