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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 8, 2000Door County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2000, 10:56 PM CDT for Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 64 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: Jun 8, 2000, 10:56 PM CDT (03:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties

County Door County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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
Jun 8, 11:20 PM CDT	Hail 1	Carlsville, 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 391 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: 2436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGRB 090358
SVRGRB
WIC029-090500-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1056 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  DOOR COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT

* AT 1056 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 60 MPH WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WAS 
  12 MILES WEST OF CHAMBERS ISLAND. THAT PLACES THE STORM 6 MILES 
  NORTH OF MARINETTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  FISH CREEK BY 1125 PM CDT.
  BAILEYS HARBOR BY 1130 PM CDT.

CAMPERS AND OTHERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING
IMMEDIATELY.

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 Jun 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:45 PM CDT, 7 hours 11 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
345 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2000

COLD FRONT MVD THRU NRN 1/2 OF WI DURING THE MORNING HOURS...BUT APPEARS
TO HAVE STALLED OUT IN THE WRN PART OF THE STATE AND POISED TO MOVE N
AGAIN. ELEVATED TRW IN NW PART OF STATE IS MOVING QUICKLY TO E AND
SHOULD BE OUT OF THE FCST AREA BY EARLY EVENING. IF THAT IS THE CASE
THERE SHOULDN/T BE ALOT MORE PCPN UNTIL MCS FORMS IN NRN MN LATER
TONIGHT AND MOVES SE INTO WI. THINK THE AREA FROM RHI TO AIG TO SUE
SHOULD SEE THA MOST RAINFALL...MORE OR LESS JUST NORTH OF WHERE THE
FRONT IS AT PRESENT. FRONT SHOULD MOVE TO NEAR MI BORDER EARLY FRI AND
SHOULD GET INTO THE 80S OVER MOST OF THE CWA WITH 850MB TEMPS OF 15 TO
20C. KEPT A CHANCE OF TRW IN THE NORTH.

.GRB...NONE.

RDM
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 9:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
945 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0935 PM    LAONA                     WI   ONE INCH HAIL
06/08/00   FOREST

HELMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest, Marinette	66 min
Jun 8, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest, Marinette	61 min
Jun 8, 10:34 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marinette	41 min
Jun 8, 10:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Forest	42 min
Jun 8, 11:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Oconto	25 min
Jun 8, 11:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marinette	50 min
Jun 8, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	62 min
Jun 9, 12:10 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Door	35 min
Jun 9, 2:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Florence	39 min
Jun 9, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Florence	41 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.