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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 4, 1995Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1995, 12:23 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 4, 1995, 12:23 PM CDT (17:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1995, 12:49 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Waushara County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 100 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 1995-08-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1140 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 12:00Z on 1995-08-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 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
1140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
850 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 041725 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC137-041815-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1223 PM CDT FRI AUG 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  115 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...WAUSHARA COUNTY
 
AT 1220 PM...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A DEVELOPING SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 2 MILES EAST OF COLOMA...IN SOUTHWEST WAUSHARA
COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE STORM WILL HIT WAUTOMA
BY 100 PM...WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...HAIL AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
 
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/BRUSKY

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, Aug 4, 6:37 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before
WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-503-041440-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
637 AM CDT FRI AUG 4 1995

...DENSE FOG REPORTED ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...

DENSE FOG WAS REPORTED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS IN CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST WISCONSIN EARLY THIS MORNING. VISIBILITIES WERE AS LOW
ONE-QUARTER MILE AT APPLETON...MOSINEE...GREEN BAY...MARSHFIELD
AND STURGEON BAY.

DUE TO THE PATCHY NATURE OF THIS FOG...MOTORISTS MAY EXPERIENCE
RAPID CHANGES IN VISIBILITY IN SHORT DISTANCES RESULTING IN
POTENTIALLY HAZARDOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS. PERSONS DRIVING TO
WORK THIS MORNING SHOULD USE THEIR LOW BEAM HEADLIGHTS AND ALLOW
EXTRA TIME TO REACH THEIR DESTINATION.

THE FOG WILL GRADUALLY DISSIPATE...WITH MUCH IMPROVED VISIBILITIES
EXPECTED AFTER 9 AM.

KIECKBUSCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBRichland53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.