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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

March 8, 2000Waupaca County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 5:51 PM CST for Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 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
Mar 8, 2000, 5:51 PM CST (23:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 2000, 6:20 PM CST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Waupaca County, WI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Mar 8, 6:05 PM CSTHail 1.75Waupaca, WI
Mar 8, 6:09 PM CSTHail 1Ogdensburg, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 8, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2000-03-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2000-03-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
351 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-230 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 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.

000 
WUUS53 KGRB 082352
SVRGRB
WIC135-090020-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
551 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAUPACA COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 620 PM CST

* AT 550 PM CST...AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  7 MILES SOUTH OF AMHERST.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SHERIDAN BY 555 PM CST
  WAUPACA BY 605 PM CST
  OGDENSBURG BY 605 PM CST

THE STORM CONTAINS HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAK/RM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 5:20 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara45 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.