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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Green Bay, WI

August 22, 1998Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 22, 1998, 3:13 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 62 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: Aug 22, 1998, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 1998, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Waushara County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1462 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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 Aug 22, 2:45 PM CDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:45 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
245 PM CDT SAT AUG 22 1998

MCS MOVG THRU STATE ATTM ASSOC WITH VORT AND LOW-LVL CONVG.  A BOW ECHO
DVLPD ON SE SIDE OF MCS...WHERE INSTAB IS HIGH...HAS SINCE EVOLVED INTO
A SHORT/FAT LINE.  XPCT RAIN/TRW OVR CNTRL AND N-CNTRL WI EARLY THIS
EVE...WITH LIKELY WORDING OVR THE E AS SYS MOVS EWD.  STEADY PCPN WL
END FM SW TO NE THIS EVE AND TNGT...BUT WONT GET TOO FANCY WITH TIMING
IN ERN PART OF FCST AREA.  NEXT SHIFT CAN PIN POINT THAT.

MODELS HAVING DIFFICULTY RESOLVING SMALL VORTS IN FAST WLY FLOW.  RUC
AND UW-NMS HAVE BEEN MOST DISAPPOINTING.  ETA AND NGM ARE IN GENERAL
AGREEMENT ON MOVMT OF FEATURE THRU 24 HRS.

NGM MOS GUID TEMPS LOOK FINE FOR TNGT.  AS SYS MOVS E OVRNGT AND ERLY
SUNDAY...DRIER AIR AT MID-LVLS MOV IN...SCOURING OUT CLOUDS.  SOME
SUNSHINE ON SUNDAY SHOULD BOOST TEMPS TO NGM MOS LVLS.

JKL

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 22, 12:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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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.