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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 1996, 8:51 PM CDT for Door 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, 8:51 PM CDT (01:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 1996, 9:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Door County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:53 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, 9:00 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Carlsville, WI | |
| Sep 10, 9:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Valmy, 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGRB 110155 COR
SVRGRB
LMZ530-WIC029-WIZ511-524-110250-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
851 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
...NORTHERN AND CENTRAL DOOR COUNTY AND THE BAY OF GREEN BAY
ALONG THE THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
AT 852 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST
OF FISH CREEK ON THE BAY OF GREEN BAY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST
SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT THE FISH CREEK...BAILEYS HARBOR...
AND JACKSONPORT AREAS BY 9 PM. LARGE HAIL WILL BE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
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/TKWhat 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, 4 hours 25 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
PLHLocal storm report, Sep 10, 4:48 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 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
PLHLocal storm report, Sep 10, 6:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 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
PLHLocal storm report, Sep 10, 6:34 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 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
PLHLocal storm report, Sep 10, 6:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 52 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
PLHLocal storm report, Sep 10, 7:35 PM CDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
733 PM CDT TUE SEP 10 1996
TIME(CDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0605 PM 2 WEST OF CRIVITZ WI WIND DAMAGE
09/10/96 MARINETTE TREES DOWN
0701 PM 2 N RHINELANDER WI 1.75 INCH HAIL
09/10/96 ONEIDA
0710 PM RHINELANDER WI .75 INCH HAIL
09/10/96 ONEIDA
0725 PM EGG HARBOR WI WIND DAMAGE
09/10/96 DOOR TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
PLHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Oneida | 59 min |
| Sep 10, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 75 min |
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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.