Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 19964 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 4:53 AM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 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: May 19, 1996, 4:53 AM CDT (09:53 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 5:30 AM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Oconto County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 111 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: 2967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 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 190953
SVRGRB
WIC037-041-075-083-191030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
453 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...FLORENCE COUNTY
   ...FOREST COUNTY
   ...MARINETTE COUNTY
   ...OCONTO COUNTY
 
AT 445 AM CDT NWS DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM CRANDON TO KESHENA MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS A HISTORY OF WIND DAMAGE.
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCES WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...AND
HAIL THAT ILS DIME-SIZED OR LARGER.  GO TO A STURDY BUILDING AND
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

&

PLH

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, May 19, 2:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
227 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....           4

0146 AM    CITY OF KEWAUNEE          WI   1 INCH HAIL
05/19/96   KEWAUNEE

ISAACSON

Local storm report, May 19, 4:41 AM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
437 AM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996

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

0240 AM    NEAR LAC DU FLAMBEAU      WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/19/96   VILAS

0407 AM    MARSHFIELD                WI   WIND DAMAGE
05/19/96   WOOD                           TREES REPORTED DOWN

0418 AM    SPENCER                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
05/19/96   MARATHON                       TREE BLOWN DOWN INTO
                                          HIGHWAY

ISAACSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 12:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Wood	56 min
May 19, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	46 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Portage, Wood	64 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln	64 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oneida, Shawano	61 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	61 min
May 19, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade	43 min
May 19, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee	48 min
May 19, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	56 min
May 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	35 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Shawano, Waupaca	60 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	41 min
May 19, 3:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oconto	40 min
May 19, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	54 min
May 19, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Kewaunee, Manitowoc	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.