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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

March 8, 2000Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 6:02 PM CST for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 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
Mar 8, 2000, 6:02 PM CST (00:02 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 2000, 6:45 PM CST
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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
Mar 8, 6:10 PM CSTHail 1.75Marshfield, 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 watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 8, 5:30 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 2000-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 630 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2000-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGRB 090002
SVRGRB
WIC097-137-141-090045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
602 PM CST WED MAR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  WAUSHARA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
  WOOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CST

* AT 6:00 PM CST...SPOTTERS REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
FROM MONTELLO TO BABCOCK AND NEILLSVILLE.  THE STORMS WERE MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  WISCONSIN RAPIDS BY 6:10 PM CST
  MARSHFIELD BY 6:10 PM CST
  HANCOCK BY 6:10 PM CST
  STEVENS POINT BY 6:30 PM CST

THESE STORMS CONTAIN HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAK/RM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 8, 6:02 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage, Waushara43 min
Mar 8, 6:21 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBMarathon49 min
Mar 8, 6:24 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaupaca31 min
Mar 8, 6:43 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWinnebago47 min
Mar 8, 6:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBShawano47 min
Mar 8, 6:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBOutagamie47 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.