Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 10:43 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 17 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1995, 10:43 PM CDT (03:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1995, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 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 03:44 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, 3.7 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KGRB 140342 RRA SVRGRB WIC097-140400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1043 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...PORTAGE COUNTY AT 1040 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR STEVENS POINT MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM WOULD BE ALMOND AND THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF PORTAGE COUNTY. THIS EXTENDS THE PREVIOUS WARNING FOR PORTAGE COUNTY. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY. 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, 9:32 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 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/KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Aug 13, 9:33 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 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/KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Aug 13, 10:08 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1008 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
940 PM DEXTERVILLE WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WOOD 6 TO 10 INCH DIAMETER TREES
BLOWN DOWN
1000 PM NEKOOSA WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WOOD TREES DOWN
KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Aug 13, 10:10 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1008 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
940 PM DEXTERVILLE WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WOOD 6 TO 10 INCH DIAMETER TREES
BLOWN DOWN
1000 PM NEKOOSA WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WOOD TREES DOWN
KIECKBUSCHLocal storm report, Aug 13, 10:29 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1029 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM LINWOOD WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WESTERN PORTAGE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
KIECKBUSCH
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/86WWUS`Local storm report, Aug 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1029 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1015 PM LINWOOD: WI WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95 WESTERN PORTAGE TREES/POWER LINES DOWN
KIECKBUSCHThe 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 | Lincoln, Marathon | 76 min |
| 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, 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
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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.