Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1999, 7:28 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 8, 1999, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1999, 8:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Portage County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:29 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 8, 8:08 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Stevens Pt, 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 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 467 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 831 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 Jul 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 330 PM CDT THU JUL 8 1999 FAST MOVG SYSTEM WILL PUSH ACRS WI TNGT. LATEST SFC PLOTS/PRESSURE TENDENCY PLOTS SUGGEST LOW WILL TRACK ACRS CENTRAL WI...A BIT FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE MODELS FCST. DESPITE CLD COVER...ATM ACRS THE SW 1/2 OF THE STATE HAS SLOWLY DESTABILIZED. THE AIR OVER IA IS MUCH MORE UNSTABLE...WITH SFC BASED LI/S AOB -8. SLY WINDS MAY YET ADVECT SOME OF THIS MORE UNSTABLE AIR INTO THE SRN PART OF MY FCST AREA. IF SO...THE POTENTIAL FOR SVR WX WILL INCR GIVEN VERY FAVORABLE WIND SHEAR ACRS THE RGN. HOWEVER...CONFIDENCE IS TOO LOW TO INCLUDE THIS IN ZFP. EVEN IF CONVECTION DOES NOT BECOME SVR...THERE WILL BE SCT TSTMS ACRS THE SRN PART OF MY FCST AREA TNGT. PCPN WILL BE MORE WIDESPREAD FARTHER NORTH...SO WILL CARRY PERIODS OF TSTMS THERE. WILL END TSTMS LATER TNGT AS MID-LEVEL DRYING SWEEPS ACRS THE AREA. THE NEXT CHC OF PCPN WILL COME TOMORROW AFTN AS STG UPR SYSTEM DRIVES SE INTO THE AREA. WILL CONFINE MENTION OF PCPN TO THE AFTN ACRS THE NW PART OF MY FCST AREA...AND KEEP A MENTION INTO THE EVENING IN THE SE. WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION THUNDER AS SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY GENERATING TSTMS NR LAKE WINNEPEG IN AIR MASS WITH SFC TEMPS IN THE 50S. DRIER AIR SHOULD SWEEP ACRS THE AREA LATER TOMORROW NGT AND SATURDAY. STAYED CLOSE TO FWC TEMPS. WILL CONT DRY WX THROUGH MUCH OF THE XTD FCST AS WNW FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEP SIG MOISTURE S OF THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. WILL INTRODUCE A CHC OF TSTMS TUE AS NEXT FRONTAL SYSTEM BEGINS TO APPROACH FROM THE WEST. .GRB...NONE. SKOWRONSKI WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon, Wood | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca, Waushara | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Shawano, Winnebago | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Oconto | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.