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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 11, 1997Langlade County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT for Langlade County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report 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
Jun 11, 1997, 5:20 PM CDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 11, 1997, 6:05 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Langlade County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:24 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 11, 5:30 PM CDTHail 1.5Deerbrook, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 1997-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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 1997-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-208 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

577 
WUUS1 KGRB 112222 RRA
SVRGRB
WIC067-112305-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
520 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  LANGLADE COUNTY - NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 605 PM CDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  KEMPSTER
  DEERBROOK
  NEVA

* AT 518 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTH OF ANTIGO...NEAR DEERBROOK.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR KEMPSTER AND DEERBROOK THROUGH 545 PM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH HAIL LARGER THAN AN INCH IN
DIAMETER. MOVE TO A STURDY SHELTER.

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 Jun 11, 4:21 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 4:21 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
4 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

SHORT TERM FCST CONCERN IS THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE EVENING.

LATEST SAT LOOPS SHOW UPPER LOW DRIFTING NNE INTO WESTCENTRL WI. KGRB
RADAR CONTINUE TO SHOW PULSE-TYPE STORMS MAINLY OVER CENTRAL WI. A FEW
STORMS HAVE PRODUCED HALF-INCH HAIL IN MARATHON COUNTY. STORMS SHOULD
REMAIN BELOW SVR LIMITS THIS EVENING. WIDELY SCT STORMS OVR FOX VALLEY
HAVE DECREASED IN AREAL COVERAGE OVR PAST HOUR. SCT SHOWERS AND STORMS
SHOULD QUICKLY DIMINISH AFT SUNSET WITH A FEW LINGERING SHOWERS STILL
POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT AS UPPER LOW AND ASSOC COLD POOL DRIFT EASTWARD AS
PER ETA MODEL. GUIDANCE TEMPS LOOK OK.

EB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:38 PM CDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
438 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

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

0415 PM    FENWOOD                   WI   1 INCH HAIL
06/11/97   MARATHON

JML/JKL
Local storm report, Jun 11, 4:41 PM CDT, 39 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
438 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

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

0415 PM    FENWOOD                   WI   1 INCH HAIL
06/11/97   MARATHON

JML/JKL
Local storm report, Jun 11, 5:10 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
510 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

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

0510 PM    DOERING                   WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/97   LINCOLN                        SIZE OF HAIL VARIED FROM
                                          PEANUT SIZE TO GOLFBALL.

JKL/MG
Local storm report, Jun 11, 5:12 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
510 PM CDT WED JUN 11 1997

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

0510 PM    DOERING                   WI   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/11/97   LINCOLN                        SIZE OF HAIL VARIED FROM
                                          PEANUT SIZE TO GOLFBALL.

JKL/MG
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon48 min
Jun 11, 5:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln50 min

Nearby

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

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.