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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 10, 1996Marinette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 2:23 PM CDT for Marinette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 47 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
Sep 10, 1996, 2:23 PM CDT (19:23 UTC)
Expired
Sep 10, 1996, 3:10 PM CDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Marinette County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 1996-09-10Temperature 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 1996-09-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 101925
SVRGRB
WIC075-102010-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
223 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 310 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN MARINETTE COUNTY
 
AT 222 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WAUSAUKEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH...
AND WILL BE AFFECTING THE WAUSAUKEE AND MCALLISTER AREAS. HAIL UP TO
ONE INCH IN DIAMTER COULD BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
 
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

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

Local storm report, Sep 10, 12:47 PM CDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1245 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1215 PM    BOULDER JCT               WI   1 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   VILAS

1220 PM    STAR LAKE                 WI   1 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   VILAS                          DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
                                          HAIL COVERING THE
                                          GROUND TO A DEPTH OF
                                          ONE INCH

RS/TSK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 10, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas30 min
Sep 10, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOneida61 min
Sep 10, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest61 min
Sep 10, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette74 min
Sep 10, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Oconto74 min
Sep 10, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.