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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 1996Vilas County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 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
May 19, 1996, 2:44 AM CDT (07:44 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 19, 3:25 AM CDTThunderstorm WindConover, WI
May 19, 3:30 AM CDTThunderstorm WindBoulder Jct, 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
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 190744
SVRGRB
WIC125-190830-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...VILAS COUNTY
 
AT 240 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ARBOR VITAE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT
THE SAYNER...CONOVER AND LAND O'LAKES BY 330 AM.

WIND DAMAGE WAS DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE ARBOR VITAE AREA.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
IF OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING.

LM/TK

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, 2:30 AM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
227 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....           4

0146 AM    CITY OF KEWAUNEE          WI   1 INCH HAIL
05/19/96   KEWAUNEE

ISAACSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Wood56 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Portage, Wood64 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln64 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Menominee, Oneida, Shawano61 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas61 min
May 19, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Marinette, Oconto37 min
May 19, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade43 min
May 19, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee48 min
May 19, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Oconto56 min
May 19, 2:25 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBPortage, Wood35 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Shawano, Waupaca60 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor41 min
May 19, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto40 min
May 19, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor54 min
May 19, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBKewaunee, Manitowoc45 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.