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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 1996Marathon County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 12:04 AM CDT for Marathon County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 56 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, 12:04 AM CDT (05:04 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 1:00 AM CDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marathon County, WI, Wood County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 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 190508
SVRGRB
WIC073-141-190605-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1204 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...MARATHON COUNTY
   ...NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 1200 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 MILES
SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF MARSHFIELD MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. SOME CITIES
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE MARSHFIELD AND WAUSAU.

LARGE HAIL IS EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND
HAIL THATr IS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER.  GO TO A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LM/TK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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
May 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Kewaunee, Manitowoc	45 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.