Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 14, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 30, 2002, 7:44 PM CDT for Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 46 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 30, 2002, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 30, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Shawano County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 3877 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
044 WFUS53 KGRB 310044 RRA TORGRB WIC115-310130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 744 PM CDT TUE JUL 30 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 738 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A FUNNEL CLOUD LOCATED NEAR RINGLE. THAT PLACES THE STORM 15 MILES SOUTH OF ANTIGO. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THE STORM INCLUDE... SHEPLEY BY 750 PM CDT. MATTOON BY 755 PM CDT. THE STORM WILL ALSO PRODUCE WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. LAT...LON 4501 8921 4470 8918 4472 8889 4502 8902 KURIMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Wood | 63 min |
| Jul 30, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Langlade, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Jul 30, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Jul 30, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee | 42 min |
| Jul 30, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 49 min |
| Jul 30, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 30, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 30, 8:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jul 30, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 49 min |
| Jul 30, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 46 min |
| Jul 30, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Vilas | 44 min |
| Jul 30, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 39 min |
| Jul 30, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 34 min |
| Jul 30, 9:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 43 min |
| Jul 30, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 95 min | |
| Jul 30, 9:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 95 min | |
| Jul 30, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Manitowoc | 46 min |
| Jul 30, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 32 min |
| Jul 31, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oneida, Vilas | 58 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.