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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 6, 1995Florence County, Forest County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Sep 6, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT for Florence County, Forest County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 062329
TORGRB
WIC037-041-070015-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
627 PM CDT WED SEP 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...NORTHWEST HALF OF FLORENCE COUNTY
   ...NORTHEAST FOREST COUNTY
 
AT 625 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 3 MILES SOUTH
OF ALVIN IN NORTHERN FOREST COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
 
THE STORM WILL TRAVEL CLOSE TO HIGHWAY 70 AND THE TOWN OF TIPLER BETWEEN
630 AND 700 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET.
 
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, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBLincoln55 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.