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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 11, 1995Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 8:55 PM CDT for Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 1995, 8:55 PM CDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Menominee County, WI, Shawano County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 56 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 00:00Z on 1995-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-292 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1189 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 120156 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC067-078-115-120300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
855 PM CDT FRI AUG 11 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...SOUTHERN LANGLADE COUNTY
   ...MENOMINEE COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN SHAWANO COUNTY
 
AT 851 PM CDT...GREEN BAY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ANTIGO. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF PHLOX...NEOPIT
AND MORGAN. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.

SKOWRONSKI/KIECKBUSCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade34 min
Aug 12, 8:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood47 min
Aug 12, 9:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams39 min
Aug 12, 9:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage47 min
Aug 12, 9:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara61 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.