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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 3:03 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 7, 1996, 3:03 AM CDT (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 3:35 AM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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 7, 3:20 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Harrison, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 070804 SVRGRB WIC069-070835- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 303 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 303 AM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWNS OF MERRILL AND TOMAHAWK. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF HARRISON...GLEASON AND BLOOMVILLE THROUGH 330 AM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. JML
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 76 min |
| Aug 7, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 79 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 2:54 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Shawano, Waupaca | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Shawano, Waupaca | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto, Shawano | 93 min |
| Aug 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence | 93 min |
| Aug 7, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 74 min |
| Aug 7, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet | 65 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.