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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 31, 1995Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT for Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 1995, 5:05 PM CDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1995, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Menominee County, WI, Shawano County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 68 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 312205 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC078-083-115-312300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
505 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...MENOMINEE COUNTY...OCONTO COUNTY...SHAWANO COUNTY
 
AT 505 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUE TO INDICATE
THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS FROM TIGERTON
SOUTH TO NEW LONDON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH.
 
THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO SHAWANO...
KESHENA...GILLETT...AND NEARBY COMMUNITIES BETWEEN 505 PM AND
600 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
J LAST/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

Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 10 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.

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 6 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.

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 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

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:06 PM CDT, 59 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

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:25 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
425 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995

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

408 PM     NORTH OF REDGRANITE       WI  70 MPH WINDS...ALSO PEA SIZE
07/31/95   WAUSHARA                      HAIL

417 PM     SOUTH OF ROTHSCHILD       WI  NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON ROADWAY
07/31/95   MARATHON                      EAST OF HWY 51

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:27 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
425 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995

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

408 PM (    NORTH OF REDGRANITE       WI  70 MPH WINDS...ALSO PEA SIZE
07/31/95   WAUSHARA                      HAIL

417 PM     SOUTH OF ROTHSCHILD       WI  NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON ROADWAY
07/31/95   MARATHON                      EAST OF HWY 51

PLH

The 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, 4:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Shawano	53 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, 5:49 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

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.