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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 12, 1995Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1995, 8:48 AM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1995, 8:48 AM CDT (13:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1995, 9:35 AM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 1995-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 841 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 1995-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 121349 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC141-121435-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
848 AM CDT SAT AUG 12 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 935 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 845 AM GREEN BAY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL PASS THROUGH THE TOWNS OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS BY 900 AM
AND NEKOOSA BY 915 AM.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND
HAIL THAT IS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER.  GO TO A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee, Shawano65 min
Aug 11, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade34 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.