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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 6, 1995Lincoln County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 12:00Z on 1995-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 657 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 12:00Z on 1995-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 062306
TORGRB
WIC069-070000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
605 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 605 PM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF PRENTICE...WHICH IS 20 MILES WEST OF TOMAHAWK. THE STORM
WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER BRADLEY AND TOMAHAWK BY
645 PM.
 
HAIL OVER 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE...MOvVE
TO A REINFORCED SHELTER. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED.
 
J LAST/SKOWRONSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOneida, Vilas42 min
Sep 6, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest54 min
Sep 6, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBFlorence, Forest48 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.