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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 1996Kewaunee County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT for Kewaunee County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1996, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 19, 4:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 19, 4:51 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Wood	56 min
May 19, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	46 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Portage, Wood	64 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln	64 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oneida, Shawano	61 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	61 min
May 19, 4:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Florence, Forest, Marinette, Oconto	37 min
May 19, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade	43 min
May 19, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee	48 min
May 19, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	56 min
May 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	35 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Shawano, Waupaca	60 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	41 min
May 19, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oconto	40 min
May 19, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	54 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.