Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 2000, 12:03 AM CDT for Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 15, 2000, 12:03 AM CDT (05:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2000, 12:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Winnebago County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 12:13 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Oshkosh, 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, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 150505 TORGRB WIC139-150530- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1203 AM CDT TUE AUG 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1230 AM CDT * AT 1203 AM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PORTION OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LARSON. THAT PLACES THE STORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OSHKOSH. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... NEENAH BY 1215 AM 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, 8:06 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, 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, 12:10 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.