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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Green Bay, WI

October 16, 1996Marinette County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 16, 1996, 11:21 PM CDT for Marinette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 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
Oct 16, 1996, 11:21 PM CDT (04:21 UTC)
Expired
Oct 17, 1996, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
54 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 04:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-10-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1044 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-10-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1044 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1025 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 170422
SVRGRB
WIC075-170515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1121 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
 
   ...MARINETTE COUNTY
 
AT 1120 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NARROW LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MARINETTE TO CRIVITZ. THE LINE OF STORMS
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THE
STORMS.  THE TOWN OF MC ALLISTER WILL BE AFFECTED BY MIDNIGHT.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY
UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
JKL/EB

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, Oct 16, 8:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
834 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996

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

0830 PM    MARATHON CITY             WI   .25 INCH HAIL
10/16/96   MARATHON                       1/4 INCH HAIL HEAVILY FELL
                                          FOR 12 MINUTES.

JKL
Special weather statement, Oct 16, 8:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
WIZ018-019-030-031-170320-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
845 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996

...HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE MINOR STREET FLOODING...

THIS EVENING'S HEAVY RAIN FROM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...COMBINED WITH
FALLEN LEAVES WHICH TEND TO CLOG STORM SEWERS...MAY CAUSE SOME MINOR
STREET FLOODING.  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT GREEN BAY
INDICATED THAT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 700 AND 830 PM
SEVERAL MILES WEST OF WAUSAU...AND IN THE ELDERON AND WITTENBERG AREAS.

AT 845 PM...RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING OVER
THE NORTHERN HALF OF MARATHON COUNTY AND NORTHWEST SHAWANO COUNTY.
THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE AS MUCH AS AN INCH OR SO OF RAIN IN
LESS THAN TWO HOUR'S TIME.

JKL
Local storm report, Oct 16, 10:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1009 PM CDT WED OCT 16 1996

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

1005 PM    1 SE ANTIGO               WI   .75 INCH HAIL
10/16/96   LANGLADE                       DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF.

JKL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 16, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade57 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.