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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 13, 1995Lincoln County, Marathon County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 8:44 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 76 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 1995, 8:44 PM CDT (01:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 1995, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 76 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 758 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 140144 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC069-073-141-140300-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
844 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 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 NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...LINCOLN COUNTY

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...MARATHON COUNTY
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 845 PM CDT DOPPLER RADAR IN GREEN BAY INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM EAST OF PART FALLS TO NEAR EAU CLAIRE. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS THE WARNING AREA...AND SHOULD
REACH THE CITIES OF MARSHFIELD BY 9 PM...WAUSAU BY 915 PM...MOSINEE
AND MERILL BY 925 PM.

THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN MOVE ACROSS THE REMAINDER
OF MARATHON AND WOOD COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM.

 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
IF OUTDOORS...GO INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PLH/JS

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 13, 3:50 PM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
350 PM CDT SAT AUG 13 1995

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....   ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

215 PM     WAUTOMA                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WAUSHARA                       TREES DOWN

315 PM     WINCHESTER                WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WINNEBAGO                      FEW POWER LINES DOWN

KALLAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Wood	76 min
Aug 13, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage	63 min
Aug 13, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Wood	45 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano, Waupaca	67 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	67 min
Aug 13, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee	55 min
Aug 13, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage	17 min
Aug 13, 11:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	4 hr
Aug 14, 12:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Adams, Juneau	64 min
Aug 14, 1:00 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRB	Waushara	3 hr
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Waushara	52 min
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Wood	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1995 Every 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.