Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Green Bay, WI
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Richland | 53 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.