Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Green Bay, WI

Issued

Jul 14, 1997, 12:20 AM CDT (05:20 UTC)

Expired

Jul 14, 1997, 1:35 AM CDT

In force

75 min

Issued by

NWS Green Bay, WI

Area

Whole counties

Counties Lincoln County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, 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.

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TTAA00 KGRB 140522 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC069-085-125-140635-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1220 AM CDT MON JUL 14 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LINCOLN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  ONEIDA COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  VILAS COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 135 AM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  LAC DU FLAMBEAU
  MINOCQUA
  TRIPOLI

* AT 1215 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM PARK FALLS TO 10 MILES NORTH OF
  MEDFORD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR LAC DU FLAMBEAU AND TRIPOLI BY 1235 AM.
  THESE STORMS WILL THEN SWEEP EASnT ACROSS THE REST OF
  VILAS...ONEIDA AND LINCOLN COUNTIES.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH. MOVE TO A
STURDY SHELTER.

JML/JS

NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 13, 3:48 PM CDT, 8 hours 32 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
348 PM CDT SUN JUL 13 1997

MAIN FORECAST CONCERN TONIGHT IS THUNDERSTORMS.

20Z TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE 80S ACROSS ALL BUT THE LAKESHORE AREAS.
DEW POINTS WERE MAINLY IN THE 70S. COMPOSITE RADAR AND KMKX WSR-88D
IMAGES SHOWED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL LAKE MICHIGAN TO
NORTHERN ILLINOIS WITH SOME WEAKER RETURNS IN MANITOWOC COUNTY AT 20Z.
PLENTY OF INSTABILITY TOO WITH SURFACE BASED LIFTED INDICIES RANGING
FROM ABOUT -5 TO -9 ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA.

ETA/NGM MODELS SIMILAR IN SHOWING AN UPPER TROUGH MAKING ITS WAY TO
WESTERN WISCONSIN BY MORNING AS A SURFACE COLD FRONT REACHES NORTH
CENTRAL WI. BUT BEST MEAN RH VALUES ARE KEPT TO THE NORTHWEST OF THE
FORECAST AREA. 12Z SOUNDINGS WERE QUITE MOIST AT KINL...KMPX...KDVN AND
KGRB SO MOISTURE WOULD NOT SEEM TO BE A PROBLEM. 12Z NTRANS PRECIPITABLE
WATER VALUES OFF THE NGM ARE STILL WELL IN EXCESS OF AN INCH DURING THE
NIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE A GOOD BET TONIGHT WITH MOISTURE/INSTABILITY AND
APPROACHING SURFACE BOUNDARY AND UPPER TROUGH. HIGH PW VALUES IMPLY
LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY WARMER THAN
LAST NIGHT IN MOST PLACES DUE TO HIGHER DEW POINTS.

MG

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.