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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 10, 1996Marinette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 4:56 PM CDT for Marinette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 74 min. 4 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, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1996, 6:10 PM CDT
In force: 74 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 21:59 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
Sep 10, 5:25 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Athelstane, WI
Sep 10, 5:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Middle Inlet, WI
Sep 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Crivitz, WI
Sep 10, 6:20 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Pound, 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, 9.9 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-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: 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 102157
SVRGRB
WIC075-102310-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL MARINETTE COUNTY
 
AT 455 PM...DOPPLER RADAR WAS INDICATING A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES
WEST NORTHWEST OF WAUSAUKEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35
MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT ATHELSTANE BY 535 PM...AND WAUSAUKEE 545 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
IF OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A STRONG BUILDING.

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, 4 hours 9 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

Local storm report, Sep 10, 4:26 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
426 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996

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

0420 PM    CRANDON                   WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   FOREST

PLH

Local storm report, Sep 10, 4:48 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
448 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996

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

0430 PM    LOANA                     WI   .88 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   FOREST

PLH

The 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, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest	61 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

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.