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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2000, 10:31 PM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 59 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
- Aug 14, 2000, 10:31 PM CDT (03:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:00 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Stevens Pt, WI | |
| Aug 14, 11:05 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Stevens Pt, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 1190 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -113 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGRB 150335 SVRGRB WIC097-141-150430- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1031 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... PORTAGE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN WOOD COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1130 PM CDT * AT 1031 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS WERE ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARSHFIELD TO WITTENBERG. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE... MARSHFIELD BU 1040 PM CDT. ROSHOLT BY 1100 PM CDT. STEVENS POINT BY 1110 PM CDT. THESE STORMS COULD DAMAGE WEAK STRUCTURES AND TREES. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORMS HAVEC PASSED. TH/JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 69 min |
| Aug 14, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Oneida | 24 min |
| Aug 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Langlade | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 80 min |
| Aug 14, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 69 min |
| Aug 14, 11:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 57 min |
| Aug 14, 11:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 56 min |
| Aug 15, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 27 min |
| Aug 15, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Calumet | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 41 min |
| Aug 15, 12:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Marathon | 4 hr |
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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.