Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 2000, 8:06 PM CDT for Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 24 min. 4 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, 8:06 PM CDT (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2000, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oneida County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Lake Tomahawk, WI | Brief touchdown |
| Aug 14, 8:13 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 61 E | Lake Tomahawk, WI | |
| Aug 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Rhinelander, WI | |
| Aug 14, 8:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Three Lakes, 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 WFUS53 KGRB 150110 TORGRB WIC085-150130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 806 PM CDT MON AUG 14 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND EASTERN ONEIDA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 806 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF MCNAUGHTON. THAT PLACES THE STORM 7 MILES WEST OF RHINELANDER. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... RHINELANDER BY 820 PM CDT...STARKS BY 822 AN GAGEN BY 825 PM CDT. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. JS/TH
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, 8:23 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, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Wood | 59 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 |
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.