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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 25, 1996Menominee County, Oconto County, Shawano County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1996, 6:26 PM CDT for Menominee County, Oconto County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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 25, 1996, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1996, 7:15 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Shawano County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 6:26 PM CDTHail 1.75Shawano, WI
Aug 25, 6:45 PM CDTThunderstorm WindBonduel, WI
Aug 25, 6:55 PM CDTThunderstorm WindChase, 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 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 99 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1088 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOneida56 min
Aug 25, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade46 min
Aug 25, 6:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon42 min
Aug 25, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBBrown, Outagamie55 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.