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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT for Calumet County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 5, 1996, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calumet County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Chilton, WI | |
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Holstein, 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 45 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
- 1099 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1099 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 060012 COR SVRGRB WIC015-060100- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 711 PM CDT MON AUG 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...SOUTHEASTERN CALUMET COUNTY AT 708 PM CDT...GREEN BAY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF FOND DU LAC. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF KIEL AND NEW HOLSTEIN BY 730 PM CDT. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE WILL ACCOMPANY THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STURDY BUILDING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 6:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 73 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1996Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.