Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI
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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:10 PM CST | Hail 1.75 | Marshfield, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Waushara | 43 min |
| Mar 8, 6:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 49 min |
| Mar 8, 6:24 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 31 min |
| Mar 8, 6:43 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 6:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 47 min |
| Mar 8, 6:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 47 min |
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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.