Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 3:04 PM CDT for Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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, 3:04 PM CDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1996, 4:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oneida County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 174 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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, 3:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lake Tomahawk, 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 17 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/TSKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 12:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 30 min |
| Sep 10, 2:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 47 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.