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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 16, 1997, 4:40 PM CDT for Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1997, 4:40 PM CDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1997, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Shawano County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 63 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRB 162144 RRA TORGRB WIC115-162215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 440 PM CDT WED JUL 16 1997 * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SHAWANO COUNTY - NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 515 PM CDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BONDUEL ANGELICA NAVARINO * AT 440 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE CITY OF SHAWANO. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM WILL BE BONDUEL BY 450 PM AND ANGELICA BY 510 PM. IF YOU ARE NEAR THIS DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN THE LOWEST FLOOR AND INNER MOST ROOM OF A BUILDING. JKL/EB
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, 4:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 79 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, 4:50 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 |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.