Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 5:13 PM CDT for Waushara County, Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 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
- May 6, 2002, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado F0 | Winneconne, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KGRB 062213 SVRGRB WIC137-139-062245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 513 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAUSHARA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 545 PM CDT * AT 513 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST BLOOMFIELD. THAT PLACES IT 11 MILES SOUTH OF WAUPACA. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... LAKE POYGAN BY 520 PM CDT. ZITTAU BY 525 PM CDT. WINCHESTER IN WINNEBAGO COUNTY BY 535 PM CDT. LARSEN BY 540 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE FOR WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. KURIMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 48 min |
| May 6, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 46 min |
| May 6, 4:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 48 min |
| May 6, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 44 min |
| May 6, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 40 min |
| May 6, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 34 min |
| May 6, 5:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 47 min |
| May 6, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 41 min |
| May 6, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 24 min |
| May 6, 6:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Calumet | 29 min |
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 110 min | |
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 110 min | |
| May 6, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 110 min | |
| May 6, 6:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown | 33 min |
| May 6, 6:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 45 min |
| May 6, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 40 min |
| May 6, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 32 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.