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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 14, 1995Vilas County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1995, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Vilas County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Phelps, WI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 3957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 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 142232
TORGRB
WIC125-142305-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
532 PM CDT FRI JUL 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 605 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...NORTHERN VILAS COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR LAND O
LAKES. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO
LOWER UPPER MICHIGAN BY 545 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...ACT QUICKLY.  GO TO THE
BASEMENT AND GET UNDER A STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE.  IF YOU ARE IN A
DWELLING WITHOUT A BASEMENT...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING
AND GO INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM WITHOUT WINDOWS...SUCH AS A CLOSET.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	46 min
Jul 14, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	32 min
Jul 14, 4:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	64 min
Jul 14, 5:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	91 min
Jul 14, 5:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	62 min
Jul 14, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest	61 min
Jul 14, 6:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	63 min
Jul 14, 6:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Florence	62 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.