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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 24, 2000Oconto County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 11:36 AM CDT for Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2000, 11:36 AM CDT (16:36 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 12:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oconto County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 48 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 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -37 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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.

751 
WUUS53 KGRB 241639
SVRGRB
WIC083-241700-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1136 AM CDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN OCONTO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL NOON CDT

* AT 1137 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  DETECTED A BROKEN LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SURING TO
  MARINETTE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...PREPARE FOR WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH...HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4495 8789 4497 8830 4476 8809 4489 8783

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLanglade, Oneida33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.