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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 1996Marathon County, Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 3:26 AM CDT for Marathon County, Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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, 3:26 AM CDT (08:26 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 4:30 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marathon County, WI, Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 19, 3:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Marshfield, WI
May 19, 3:40 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Spencer, 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 190826
SVRGRB
WIC069-073-097-141-190930-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...LINCOLN COUNTY

IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...MARATHON COUNTY
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY
   ...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 325 AM CDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM WESTERN
TAYLOR COUNTY TO CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 60 TO 70 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH AND ARE EXPECTED TO
MOVE THROUGH MERRILL...WAUSAU.|..MARSHFIELD...WISCONSIN RAPIDS AND
STEVENS POINT BEFORE 430 AM.
 
REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES.  IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY NOW.

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, 56 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.

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	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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.