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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 13, 1995Portage County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 9:37 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1995, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1995, 10:40 PM CDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Portage County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 111 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 1995-08-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1788 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 1995-08-14The 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 140236 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC097-140340-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST
WEST OF WAUSAU TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF MARSHFIELD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE STEVENS POINT BY 950 PM...
AMHERST JUNCTION AND BANCROFT BY 1015 PM.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND
LHAIL THAT IS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER.  GO TO A STURDY 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, 5 hours 47 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
Local storm report, Aug 13, 9:17 PM CDT, 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
915 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

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

910 PM     1 N STRATFORD             WI   60 TO 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/13/95   MARATHON

SKOWRONSKI/KIECKBUSCH
Local storm report, Aug 13, 9:32 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
932 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

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

930 PM     LITTLE CHICAGO            WI   60 TO 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/13/95   MARATHON

PLH/KIECKBUSCH
Local storm report, Aug 13, 9:33 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
932 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

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

930 PM     LITTLE CBHICAGO            WI   60 TO 70 MPH TSTM GUST
08/13/95   MARATHON

PLH/KIECKBUSCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln, Marathon76 min
Aug 13, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood76 min
Aug 13, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Wood45 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano, Waupaca67 min
Aug 13, 10:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara67 min
Aug 13, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Menominee55 min
Aug 13, 10:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage17 min
Aug 13, 11:29 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBPortage, Wood4 hr
Aug 14, 12:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBAdams, Juneau64 min
Aug 14, 1:00 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningGRBWaushara3 hr
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara52 min
Aug 14, 1:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWood40 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.