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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 14, 1995Portage County, Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1995, 1:08 AM CDT for Portage County, Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 14, 1995, 1:08 AM CDT (06:08 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1995, 2:00 AM CDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Portage County, WI, Waushara County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KGRB 140608 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC097-137-141-140700-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
108 AM CDT MON AUG 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...SOUTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY
   ...WAUSHARA COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 105 AM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE PLAINFIELD...AMOND AND
KELLNER.
 
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, 10:29 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 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

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 10:30 PM CDT, 2 hours 38 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

Local storm report, Aug 13, 10:49 PM CDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1049 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

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

900 PM     ABBOTSFORD                WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   EXT. WESTERN MARATHON          LARGE TREE DOWN ON ROADWAY.
                                          TIME ESTIMATED.

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Aug 13, 10:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1049 PM CDT SUN AUG 13 1995

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

900 PM     ABBOTSFORD                WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   EXT. WESTERN MARATHON          LARGE TREE DOWN ON ROADWAY.
                                          TIME ESTIMATED.

KIECKBUSCH

Local storm report, Aug 14, 12:52 AM CDT, 16 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1252 AM CDT MON AUG 14 1995

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

1045 PM    AMHERST                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   PORTAGE                        TREES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED.

1100 PM    WAUPACA                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WAUPACA                        TREE LIMB TOOK POWER LINES
                                          DOWN.

1120 PM    SOUTHERN PART OF CNTY     WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WAUSHARA                       TREE LIMBS DOWN.

1120 PM    10 N KESHENA              WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   MENOMINEE                      TREES DOWN ACROSS HWY 55.
                                          TIME ESTIMATED.

Local storm report, Aug 14, 12:53 AM CDT, 15 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1252 AM CDT MON AUG 14 1995

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

1045 PM    AMHERST                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   PORTAGE                        TREES DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED.

1100 PM    WAUPACA                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WAUPACA                        TREE LIMB TOOK POWER LINES
                                          DOWN.

1120 PM    SOUTHERN PART OF CNTY     WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   WAUSHARA                       TREE LIMBS DOWN.

1120 PM    10 N KESHENA              WI   WIND DAMAGE
08/13/95   MENOMINEE                      TREES DOWN ACROSS HWY 55.
                                          TIME ESTIMATED.

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	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, 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	Wood	40 min

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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.