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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 23, 2000Langlade County, Oneida County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 8:57 PM CDT for Langlade County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 33 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
May 23, 2000, 8:57 PM CDT (01:57 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2000, 9:30 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Langlade County, WI, Oneida County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 144 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:57 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
May 23, 9:00 PM CDTHail 1Rhinelander, 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-24Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

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

042 
WUUS53 KGRB 240157
SVRGRB
WIC067-085-240230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
857 PM CDT TUE MAY 23 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LANGLADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  SOUTHEASTERN ONEIDA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 930 PM CDT

* AT 855 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RHINELANDER.  THE STORM
  WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 4O MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PELICAN LAKE BY 910 PM
  PEARSON BY 920 PM

THE STORM CONTAINS HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. BOATERS ON
INLAND LAKES SHOULD GET TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY. FIND A STURDY BUILDING
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

RM/DC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 11:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOconto24 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.