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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 18, 1996Door County, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1996, 7:36 PM CDT for Door County, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report 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: Jul 18, 1996, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1996, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 18, 7:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Brussels, 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, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 2604 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.5
Supercell composite: 9.9

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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, Jul 18, 5:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
543 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996

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

0533 PM    3 MILES NORTH OF IRMA     WI   TORNADO
07/18/96   LINCOLN                        TORNADO BY PUBLIC

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 18, 5:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
602 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996

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

0553 PM    EAST SIDE OF WAUPACA      WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/96   WAUPACA                        3 FT DIAMETER TREES DOWN

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:04 PM CDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
607 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996

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

0600 PM    NEAR FREEMONT             WI   60 MPH WIND GUST
07/18/96   WINNEBAGO

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
619 PM CDT THU JUL 18 1996

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

0547 PM    TOMAHAWK                  WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/18/96   LINCOLN                        ROOF DAMAGE AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN

PLH

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:49 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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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.