Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 4:07 PM CDT for Langlade County, Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1995, 4:07 PM CDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Langlade County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Shawano County, WI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 2380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGRB 312111 RRA SVRGRB WIC067-078-115-312200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION /EXPIRATION TIMES/ NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 407 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...LANGLADE COUNTY...MENOMINEE COUNTY...WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY AT 405 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WITTENBERG...ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTH OF ANTIGO. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TOWNS OF WITTENBERG...MATTOON...NEOPIT...AND ANTIGO CAN EXPECT HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH BETWEEN 405 PM AND 500 PM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. J LAST/MG/DI
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
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 11:50 AM CDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
WIZ022-038>040-045-048>050-312200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1150 AM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON... THE HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND MOST OF EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THE ADVISORY AREA IS ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM STEVENS POINT TO STURGEON BAY. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE EAA CONVENTION GROUNDS IN OSHKOSH. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LOCATIONS WILL WARM INTO THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH THE HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL ONCE AGAIN DRIVE HEAT INDICIES INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE. ELDERLY PERSONS...THOSE TAKING MEDICATION...AND PERSONS WITH RESPIRATORY DIFFICULTIES ARE URGED TO REFRAIN FROM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TODAY. EVEN PERSONS IN GOOD HEALTH SHOULD AVOID EXCESSIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY...AND DRINK PLENTY OF LIQUIDS IF OUTDOORS FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL BRING COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION THIS EVENING...AND WILL ALSO TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME QUITE STRONG...WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. KIECKBUSCH
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 11:53 AM CDT, 4 hours 14 minutes before
WIZ022-038>040-045-048>050-312200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1150 AM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON... THE HEAT ADVISORY CONTINUES FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND MOST OF EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN FOR THIS AFTERNOON. THE ADVISORY AREA IS ROUGHLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM STEVENS POINT TO STURGEON BAY. THIS AREA INCLUDES THE EAA CONVENTION GROUNDS IN OSHKOSH. VERY WARM AND HUMID AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MOST LOCATIONS WILL WARM INTO THE 90 TO 95 DEGREE RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH THE HIGH HUMIDITY LEVELS WILL ONCE AGAIN DRIVE HEAT INDICIES INTO THE 100 TO 105 RANGE. ELDERLY PERSONS...THOSE TAKING MEDICATION...AND PERSONS WITH RESPIRATORY DIFFICULTIES ARE URGED TO REFRAIN FROM PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TODAY. EVEN PERSONS IN GOOD HEALTH SHOULD AVOID EXCESSIVE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY...AND DRINK PLENTY OF LIQUIDS IF OUTDOORS FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD. A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL BRING COOLER AIR INTO THE REGION THIS EVENING...AND WILL ALSO TRIGGER SOME THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME QUITE STxRONG...WITH HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. KIECKBUSCH
Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:55 PM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
255 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
215 PM LAONA AND BLACKWELL WI 18 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN
07/31/95 FOREST ON POWER LINES IN LAONA.
ALSO TREE DOWN ON POWER
LINES NEAR BLACKWELL.
KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Jul 31, 2:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
255 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
215 PM LAONA AND BLACKWELL WI 18 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN
07/31/95 FOREST ON POWER LINES IN LAONA.
ALSO TREE DOWN ON POWER
LINES NEAR BLACKdWELL.
KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Jul 31, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
405 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
340 PM 10 W CRIVITZ (NEWTON LK) WI TREE DOWN...ALSO MARBLE SIZE
07/31/95 MARINETTE HAIL
353 PM WAUTOMA WI .75 INCH HAIL
07/31/95 WAUSHARA
KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Jul 31, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 minute before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
405 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
340 PM 10 W CRIVITZ (NEWTON LK) WI TREE DOWN...ALSO MARBLE SIZE
07/31/95 MARINETTE HAIL
353 PM WAUTOMA WI .75 INCH HAIL
07/31/95 WAUSHARA
KIECKBUSCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 37 min |
| Jul 31, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 58 min |
| Jul 31, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Adams, Juneau | 68 min |
| Jul 31, 2:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Richland | 51 min |
| Jul 31, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 18 min |
| Jul 31, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 48 min |
| Jul 31, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 45 min |
| Jul 31, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 4:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 39 min |
| Jul 31, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Shawano | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 29 min |
| Jul 31, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Waushara | 53 min |
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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.