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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 19, 1996Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at May 19, 1996, 2:25 PM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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
May 19, 1996, 2:25 PM CDT (19:25 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1996, 3:00 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 19, 2:35 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 70Wisconsin Rapids, WI
May 19, 2:42 PM CDTThunderstorm WindStevens Point, 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 133 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 191926 RRA
TORGRB
WIC097-141-192000-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
225 PM CDT SUN MAY 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
 
   ...PORTAGE COUNTY...WOOD COUNTY
 
AT 225 PM...A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND NEAR THE TOWN OF 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS. DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS WAS REPORTED IN THIS
AREA. BRION...AND KELLNER AND PLOVER ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN
INTERIOR ROOM OR CLOSET.
 
J LAST/SKOWRONSKI
 
&

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 12:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Wood56 min
May 19, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas46 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Portage, Wood64 min
May 19, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln64 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Menominee, Oneida, Shawano61 min
May 19, 4:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBVilas61 min
May 19, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Marinette, Oconto37 min
May 19, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade43 min
May 19, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMenominee48 min
May 19, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarinette, Oconto56 min
May 19, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon, Shawano, Waupaca60 min
May 19, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor41 min
May 19, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto40 min
May 19, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor54 min
May 19, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBKewaunee, Manitowoc45 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.