Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 5:49 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2002, 5:49 PM CDT (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Waushara County, WI
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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 062249 SVRGRB WIC137-062330- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 549 PM CDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WAUSHARA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 630 PM CDT * AT 549 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF HANCOCK. THAT PLACES IT 19 MILES SOUTH OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... HANCOCK BY 600 PM CDT. COLOMA BY 600 PM CDT. PLAINFIELD BY 600 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. LAT...LON 4423 8982 4405 8985 4401 8940 4421 8937 BRUSKY
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, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara, Winnebago | 32 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.