Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 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
- Jul 1, 2000, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2000, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:51 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Presque Isle, WI | |
| Jul 1, 10:20 PM CDT | Hail 0.88 | Boulder Jct, 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, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
023 WUUS53 KGRB 020238 SVRGRB WIC125-020330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 937 PM CDT SAT JUL 1 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VILAS COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 937 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORMS WERE CENTERED 6 MILES NORTH OF PRESQUE ISLE. THAT PLACES THE CENTER OF THE CLUSTER 38 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLE RIVER. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE... PRESQUE ISLE. BOULDER JUNCTION. LAND O LAKES. SAYNER. CONOVER. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...PREPARE FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. APK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 10:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 45 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.