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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 25, 1996Brown County, Outagamie County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT for Brown County, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 55 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 25, 1996, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 1996, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Brown County, WI, Outagamie County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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 25, 6:55 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pulaski, WI
Aug 25, 6:59 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Suamico, 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 11 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: 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 252351
SVRGRB
WIC009-087-WIZ511-260045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
650 PM CDT SUN AUG 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...BROWN COUNTY
   ...OUTAGAMIE COUNTY
 
AT 645 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
OCONTO FALLS WEST TO THE CITY OF SHAWANO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WOULD BE SEYMOUR AND PULASKI
BY 710 PM CDT AND GREEN BAY BY 730 PM CDT.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPpH...AND
HAIL THAT IS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER.  GO TO A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PLH/JS/MG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	56 min
Aug 25, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade	46 min
Aug 25, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	42 min
Aug 25, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee, Oconto, Shawano	49 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.