Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 3:54 PM CDT for Forest County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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
- Sep 10, 1996, 3:54 PM CDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1996, 4:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forest County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 4:20 PM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Crandon, WI | |
| Sep 10, 4:30 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Laona, 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 142 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 102055 SVRGRB WIC041-102155- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 354 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 455 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN ...FOREST COUNTY AT 353 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF CRANDON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD MOVE BETWEEN CRANDON AND ARGONNE BY 415 TO 430 PM. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. IF THIS STORM THREATENS YOUR LOCATION...GO TO A REENFORCED BUILDING AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SANDERS/JS
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, 3 hours 7 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, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida | 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.