Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 687
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 14, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan; 13 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2000, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2000, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Menominee County, MI, Brown County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI
Warnings issued inside it
6 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 8:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Forest, Langlade | 67 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 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 |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Barron, Brown, Buffalo, Calumet, Chippewa and 22 more | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.