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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 10, 2000Portage County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 7:18 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 10, 2000, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2000, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Portage County, WI

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 10, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 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 110021
SVRGRB
WIC097-110045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
718 PM CDT SAT JUN 10 2000

...CORRECTED TO REMOVE WAUPACA COUNTY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN
  
* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 718 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH 60 MPH WINDS. THE STORM WAS 4 MILES SOUTH
  OF PLOVER. THAT PLACES THE STORM 8 MILES SOUTH OF STEVENS POINT.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE...
  AMHERST BY 730 PM CDT.
 
THIS STORM COULD DAMAGE WEAK STRUCTURES AND TREES. IF YOU ARE IN THE
PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4457 8963 4431 8961 4431 8916 4456 8923

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2000 Every 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.