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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 8, 2003Winnebago County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 12:47 PM CDT for Winnebago County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 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
Jun 8, 2003, 12:47 PM CDT (17:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2003, 1:30 PM CDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Winnebago County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2003-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2003-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

484 
WUUS53 KGRB 081747
SVRGRB
WIC139-081830-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1245 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1245 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER
  REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG WINDS AND HAIL.
  THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WITTMAN FIELD. THAT PLACES IT NEAR 
  OSHKOSH. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OSHKOSH AROUND 120 PM
  WINNEBAGO AROUND 130 PM

A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING.

LAT...LON 4401 8875 4389 8859 4408 8841 4424 8852

$$
TE

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 1:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBCalumet31 min
Jun 8, 4:17 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBManitowoc28 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.