Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1996, 5:52 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. 2 reports 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
- Jun 29, 1996, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1996, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 | Stevens Point, WI | |
| Jun 29, 6:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bancroft, 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 292253 SVRGRB WIC097-292345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 552 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...PORTAGE COUNTY AT 550 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR WISCONSIN RAPIDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT PLOVER...KEENE...BANCROFT AND OTHER TOWNS IN SOUTHERN PORTAGE COUNTY BY 630 PM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THE STORM. TREES WERE DOWNED BY THE STORM JUST WEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS AT 545 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. MOVE TO SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. J K LAST/KIECKBUSCH &
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, Jun 29, 2:49 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
244 PM CDT SAT JUN 29 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0145 PM 2 S MINOCQUA WI WIND DAMAGE
06/29/96 ONEIDA A FEW TREES AND A POWER
LINE DOWN BETWEEN MINOCQUA
N AND HAZELHURST. TIME APPROX.
J K LASTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 70 min |
| Jun 29, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Waushara | 55 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.