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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 31, 1995Waupaca County, Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 6:52 PM CDT for Waupaca County, Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 1995, 6:52 PM CDT (23:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1995, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 312354 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC137-135-010045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
652 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...WAUSHARA COUNTY...WAUPACA COUNTY
 
AT 650 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
NEAR WILD ROSE IN CENTRAL WAUSHARA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SOME OF THE TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM IN
WAUSHARA COUNTY INCLUDE WILD ROSE. THE STORM SHOULD HIT THE CITY OF
WAUPACA BY 720 PM.
 
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THE STORM.
 
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/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, 5:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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

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

528 PM     ABRAMS/MORGAN             WI  TREES DOWN
07/31/95   OCONTO

515 PM     KESHENA                   WI  LARGE TREE LIMB BLOCKING ROAD
           MENOMINEE

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 5:49 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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

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

528 PM v    ABRAMS/MORGAN             WI  TREES DOWN
07/31/95   OCONTO

515 PM     KESHENA                   WI  LARGE TREE LIMB BLOCKING ROAD
           MENOMINEE

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 5:55 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

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

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

520 PM     EMBARASS                  WI  MANY TREES DOWN...POWER LINES
07/31/95   WAUPACA                       PULLED FROM HOUSES.

PLH

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 5:57 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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

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

520 PM     EMBARASS                  WI  MANY TREES DOWN...POWER LINES
07/31/95   WAUPACA                       PULLED FROM HOUSES.

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:45 PM CDT, 7 minutes before

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

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

UNKNOWN    NEAR CLINTONVILLE             WIND DAMAGE
07/31/95   WAUPACA                       CHURCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION WAS
                                         BLOWN DOWN.  PORT-A-POTTY
                                         THROWN MANY FEET.

J LAST

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Local storm report, Jul 31, 6:48 PM CDT, 4 minutes before

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

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

UNKNOWN    NEAR CLINTONVILLE             WIND DAMAGE
07/31/95   WAUPACA                       CHURCH UNDER CONSTRUCTION WAS
                                         BLOWN DOWN.  PORT-A-POTTY
                                         THROWN MANY FEET.

J LAST

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, 5:05 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

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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.