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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 13, 1995Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 1:53 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 1:53 PM CDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 2:40 PM CDT
In force
47 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 18:53 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, 6.9 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 1995-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 79 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1995-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
79 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-213 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1408 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 131853 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC137-131940-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
153 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 240 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN WAUSHARA COUNTY
 
AT 145 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF WAUTOMA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE
TOWNS OF REDGRANITE...AURORAVILLE AND POY SIPPI BY 230 PM.
 
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.

MCDERMOT/KALLAS

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.