Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 7, 1996, 2:54 AM CDT for Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 min. 3 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
- Aug 7, 1996, 2:54 AM CDT (07:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1996, 3:40 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marathon County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:56 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Edgar, WI | |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Wausau, WI | |
| Aug 7, 3:19 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Shantytown, 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 3575 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 070754 TORGRB WIC073-070840- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 254 AM CDT WED AUG 7 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY WI HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 340 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN ...MARATHON COUNTY AT 250 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF STRATFORD. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF FENWOOD...EDGAR AND MARATHON CITY BY 315 AM. GO TO THE BASEMENT AND GET UNDER A STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE. IF YOU ARE IN A DWELLING WITHOUT A BASEMENT...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. EB/JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 1:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 76 min |
| Aug 7, 2:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 79 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 50 min |
| Aug 7, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Shawano, Waupaca | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 95 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Shawano, Waupaca | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 3:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 62 min |
| Aug 7, 3:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Oconto, Shawano | 93 min |
| Aug 7, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence | 93 min |
| Aug 7, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 74 min |
| Aug 7, 4:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet | 65 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.