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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 16, 1997Lincoln County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1997, 4:11 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 79 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: Jul 16, 1997, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Jul 16, 4:22 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Irma, WI
Jul 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Merrill, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 16, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2398 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRB 162113 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC069-162230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
411 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LINCOLN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 530 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  TOMAHAWK
  BRADLEY
  GLEASON

* AT 410 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORMS FROM GLEASON TO TRIPOLI ACROSS THE COUNTY. THE
  STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE STORMS WILL BE OVER THE COUNTY TROUGH 515 PM.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH AND LARGE
HAIL. MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE WpARNING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION.

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.

NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 10:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 10:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 14 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1055 AM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

TSTMS CONT TO FIRE ALONG DEVELOPING QUASI-STNRY FNT DRAPED ACROSS NRN WI
LATE THIS MORNING. DEW PTS OF 70+ WERE POOLING ALONG THE FNT WITH MORE
WARM AND MOIST AIR ON THE WAY. 12Z GRB SNDNG PROVIDE A CAPE OF 3000 J/KG
AND A LI OF -7. MODIFYING THIS SNDNG USING A 90 TEMP AND 70 DEW PTS SENDS
THE CAPE TO ALMOST 4100 J/KG AND LI'S DOWN TO -9. EXPECT TSTMS TO CONT
THRU THE AFTERNOON ACROSS NRN WI WITH GUSTY WNDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF
HVY RAINFALL.

ALSO DROPPED MAX TEMPS DOWN A BIT CONSIDERING PCPN AND MORE CLDS THAN
ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED.

SPC HAS PLACED THE WRN SECTIONS OF WI UNDER A MDT RISK OF SVR XFOR LTR
TNGT WITH A SLGT RISK FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE. WL EVALUATE COMPLETE
12Z PACKAGE AND UPDATE MORE ON THIS IN THE AFTERNOON DISC.

KALLAS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:19 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
319 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0310 PM    PICKEREL                  WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   LINCOLN                        TREES DOWN...POLICE CHIEF
                                          TAKING COVER IN THE
                                          BASEMENT.

JKL/RF

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:20 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
319 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0310 PM    PICKEREL                  WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   LINCOLN                        TREES DOWN...POLICE CHIEF
                                          TAKING COVER IN THE
          |                                BASEMENT.

JKL/RF

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:41 PM CDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
341 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0335 PM    PEARSON                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   LANGLADE                       NUMBEROUS TREES DOWN AND
                                          BARN ROOF BLOWN ONTO HWY.

RF

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:43 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
341 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0335 PM    PEARSON                   WI   WIND DAMAGE
07/16/97   LANGLADE                       NUMBEROUS TREES DOWN AND
                                          BARN ROOF BLOWN ONTO HWY.

RF

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:58 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
358 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0340 PM    HOGARTY                   WI   TORNADO
07/16/97   MARATHON                       TOUCHDOWN NEAR TOWN
                                          OFFICERS ARE INVESTIGATING.

RF

Local storm report, Jul 16, 3:59 PM CDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
358 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997

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

0340 PM    HOGARTY                   WI   TORNADO
07/16/97   MARATHON                       TOUCHDOWN NEAR TOWN
                                          OFFICERS ARE INVESTIGATING.

RF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 6:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida, Vilas	61 min
Jul 16, 12:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	75 min
Jul 16, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida	75 min
Jul 16, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest, Oneida	79 min
Jul 16, 2:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Oneida	47 min
Jul 16, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln	80 min
Jul 16, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade	74 min
Jul 16, 3:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Lincoln	35 min
Jul 16, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Langlade	35 min
Jul 16, 3:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marathon	46 min
Jul 16, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee	47 min
Jul 16, 3:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Shawano	48 min
Jul 16, 3:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Menominee	36 min
Jul 16, 4:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marathon	36 min
Jul 16, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Portage, Waupaca	48 min
Jul 16, 4:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Shawano	35 min
Jul 16, 4:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	45 min
Jul 16, 4:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie	79 min
Jul 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	79 min
Jul 16, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Calumet, Winnebago	65 min
Jul 16, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Waushara	36 min
Jul 16, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Manitowoc	80 min
Jul 16, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	64 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.