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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 8, 2000Oconto County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2000, 11:05 PM CDT for Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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
Jun 8, 2000, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2000, 11:30 PM CDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

County Oconto County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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
Jun 8, 11:30 PM CDTHail 1Lakewood, 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 nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 418 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 554 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
554 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-382 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KGRB 090407
TORGRB
WIC083-090430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1105 PM CDT THU JUN 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 1130 PM CDT

* AT 1105 PM CDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS PLACES
  THE STORM 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CRANDON.  IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST 
  AT 45 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... 
  TOWNSEND BY 1115 PM CDT.
  LAKEWOOD BY 1120 PM CDT. 

MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
BUILDING.

CAMPERS AND OTHERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING
IMMEDIATELY.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest, Marinette66 min
Jun 8, 10:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBForest, Marinette61 min
Jun 8, 10:34 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBMarinette41 min
Jun 8, 10:48 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBForest42 min
Jun 8, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor64 min
Jun 8, 11:25 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBMarinette50 min
Jun 8, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBDoor62 min
Jun 9, 12:10 AM CDTTornado WarningGRBDoor35 min
Jun 9, 2:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence39 min
Jun 9, 2:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBFlorence41 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.