Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 11:10 PM CDT for Menominee County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 28, 2002, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2002, 12:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Menominee County, WI, Shawano County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 1469 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
504 WUUS53 KGRB 290410 SVRGRB WIC078-115-290515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1110 PM CDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MENOMINEE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN SHAWANO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 1215 AM CDT * AT 1110 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH 60 MPH WINDS. THE LINE WAS LOCATED FROM 14 MILES NORTH OF WITTENBERG TO WITTENBERG. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORMS INCLUDE... TIGERTON BY 1115 PM CDT. WHITCOMB BY 1115 PM CDT. SHEPLEY BY 1115 PM CDT. MATTOON BY 1120 PM CDT. THE EXPECTED WINDS MAY BE STRONG ENOUGH TO DAMAGE WEAK STRUCTURES AND TREES. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4501 8919 4472 8918 4472 8855 4509 8854 KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 56 min |
| Jul 28, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 26 min |
| Jul 28, 10:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 45 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.