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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 6, 1996Shawano County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 6:17 PM CDT for Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 73 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 6, 1996, 6:17 PM CDT (23:17 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1996, 7:30 PM CDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Shawano County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 381 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: 1662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 653 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.8

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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

Special weather statement, Aug 6, 1:31 PM CDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Calumet	49 min
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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.