Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT for Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 min. 3 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
- Jul 13, 2000, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2000, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Door County, WI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 3:50 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Sturgeon Bay, WI | |
| Jul 13, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Forestville, WI | Brief touchdown |
| Jul 13, 4:16 PM CDT | Hail 1 | Brussels, 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 634 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 751 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
391 WFUS53 KGRB 132050 TORGRB WIC029-132115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 350 PM CDT THU JUL 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DOOR COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 350 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 NEAR STURGEON BAY. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... CLAY BANKS BY 355 PM CDT. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. JKL/EB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 25 min |
| Jul 13, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence, Forest | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 50 min |
| Jul 13, 3:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 32 min |
| Jul 13, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Door, Kewaunee | 43 min |
| Jul 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 35 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.