Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 12:20 PM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 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
- Sep 10, 1996, 12:20 PM CDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1996, 12:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 12:20 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Star Lake, 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, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 101722 SVRGRB WIC125-101750- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1220 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1250 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...EASTERN VILAS COUNTY AT 1219 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLE RIVER. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT AREAS TO THE NORTH AND EAST OF EAGLE RIVER. DIME TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM NEAR BOULDER JUNCTION AT 1215 PM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND HAIL THAT IS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER. GO TO A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SANDERS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 47 min |
| Sep 10, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida | 61 min |
| Sep 10, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 61 min |
| Sep 10, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 74 min |
| Sep 10, 5:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto | 74 min |
| Sep 10, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 61 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.