Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 12:53 PM CDT for Door County, Kewaunee County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1995, 12:53 PM CDT (17:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1995, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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
Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 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 111755 RRA SVRGRB WIC071-029-061-111900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1253 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...MANITOWOC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...DOOR COUNTY...KEWAUNEE COUNTY AT 1252 PM CDT...GREEN BAY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM MARINETTE TO GREEN BAY TO APPLETON. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AS THEY MOVED TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE STURGEON BAY...KEWAUNEE ...MANITOWOC AND KIEL. 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. BRUSKY/KIECKBUSCH
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, Aug 11, 11:57 AM CDT, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1200 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 AM ANTIGO WI POWER OUTAGES.
08/11/95 LANGLADE FEW POWER LINES DOWN.
1145 AM NEAR HATLEY WI TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
08/11/95 MARATHON
KALLASLocal storm report, Aug 11, 12:00 PM CDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1200 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 AM ANTIGO WI POWER OUTAGES.
08/11/95 LANGLADE FEW POWER LINES DOWN.
1145 AM NEAR HATLEY WI TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
08/11/95 MARATHON
KALLASLocal storm report, Aug 11, 12:15 PM CDT, 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1215 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 AM WITTENBERG WI WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 50 MPH.
08/11/95 SHAWANO POWER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT.
KALLASLocal storm report, Aug 11, 12:16 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1215 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 ABM WITTENBERG WI WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 50 MPH.
08/11/95 SHAWANO POWER OUTAGES THROUGHOUT.
KALLASLocal storm report, Aug 11, 12:40 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1240 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
UNKNOWN KESHENA WI TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
08/11/95 MENOMINEE
1225 PM SHAWANO TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
SHAWANO
1230 PM MOUNTAIN/SURING WI TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
KALLASLocal storm report, Aug 11, 12:41 PM CDT, 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1240 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
UNKNOWN KESHENA WI TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
08/11/95 MENOMINEE
1225 PM SHAWANO TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
SHAWANO
1230 PM MOUNTAIN/SURING WI TREES/POWER LINES DOWN.
KALLASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 11:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon, Portage, Shawano | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 11:47 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 43 min |
| Aug 11, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee, Shawano | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 12:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 37 min |
| Aug 11, 12:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 37 min |
| Aug 11, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 12:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 57 min |
| Aug 11, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.