Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 9:53 PM CDT for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2001, 9:53 PM CDT (02:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2001, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 795 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -280 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 534 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGRB 190254 SVRGRB WIC125-190330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 953 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... VILAS COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1030 PM CDT * AT 953 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF PRESQUE ISLE...OR 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAGLE RIVER. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME AREAS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE WINCHESTER PRESQUES ISLE MANITOWISH WATERS IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE FOR HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. CAMPERS AND OTHERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. $$ LAT...LON 4630 9005 4597 8997 4611 8873 4650 8944 TSK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 3:30 PM CDT, 6 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 330 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001 CHALLENGE WITH THE FCST TNT IS COVERAGE OF TSRAS AND DEGREE OF SEVERITY. WARM FRONT STILL ACTIVE OVER PARTS OF THE CWA THIS AFTN. CONVECTION CURRENTLY OVER THE SE HALF OF THE CWA APPEARS TO BE ALONG H8 HOT PROD... AND STILL ACTIVE SO WL MENTN EVENING WRDG FAR SE THEN CHC LATE AGAIN TNT WITH CDFNT. CDFNT STILL TO THE WEST BUT WILL STILL CONT LIKELY POPS FOR THIS FEATURE OVERNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE A DRY FCST FOR TUESDAY...AS MOST MODELS INDICATE THE FRONT WILL BE SE OF THE FCST AREA. WILL ALSO CONT TO KEEP THE SMALL CHC OF SHRAS FOR WED WITH WK TROF SAGGING SWD OVER THE STATE. OTHERzWISE A DRY FCST THROUGH SUNDAY WITH A GRADUAL WARMING TREND. OTHERWISE LITTLE TIME FOR DISCUSION THIS AFTN DUE TO ONGOING NEAR SVR WX. .GRB...NONE. HELMAN WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 7:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-190200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 750 PM CDT MON JUN 18 2001 ...THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED LATER TONIGHT... AT 7:45 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED OVER FAR EASTERN MINNESOTA AND WEST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO STRENGTHEN AND BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD AS THEY MOVE NORTHEAST THIS EVENING. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORMS WILL BEGIN AFFECTING CENTRAL WISCONSIN AROUND 9:00 PM...AND THEN SPREAD NORTH AND EAST ACROSS THE REST OF THE AREA DURING THE LATE EVENING. THEY SHOULD REACH THE LAKESHORE BETWEEN MIDNIGHT A;ND 1:00 AM. THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL OCCUR BETWEEN 9:00 PM AND 3:00 AM. BE SURE TO MONITOR LATER STATEMENTS AND FORECASTS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKOWRONSKI WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 59 min |
| Jun 18, 10:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.