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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 10, 1996Forest County, Oneida County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 7:01 PM CDT for Forest County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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, 7:01 PM CDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 1996, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Forest County, WI, Oneida County, WI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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, 7:01 PM CDT	Hail 1.75	Rhinelander, WI
Sep 10, 7:10 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Rhinelander, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 139 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1731 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 110003
SVRGRB
WIC041-085-110100-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

   ...SOUTHERN FOREST COUNTY

IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

   ...EASTERN ONEIDA COUNTY
 
AT 700 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTH OF RHINELANDER TO 10 MILES EAST
OF CRANDON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND
WILL AFFECT THE RHINELANDER...MONICO...CRANDON AND LAONA. LARGE
HAIL WILL BE LIK,LEY WITH THESE STORMS.
 
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/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, 4:26 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 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, 2 hours 13 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

Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:06 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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

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

0525 PM    ATHELSTANE                WI   .88 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   MARINETTE

0550 PM    LAKEWOOD                  WI   .75 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   OCONTO

PLH

Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:34 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

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

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

0620 PM    POUND                     WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   MARINETTE

PLH

Local storm report, Sep 10, 6:59 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

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

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

0656 PM    4 NW RHINELANDER          WI   .88 INCH HAIL
09/10/96   ONEIDA

PLH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 7:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	75 min
Sep 10, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	59 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.