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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 8, 2003Calumet County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 1:29 PM CDT for Calumet County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 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, 1:29 PM CDT (18:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2003, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Calumet County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 52 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.

927 
WFUS53 KGRB 081829
TORGRB
WIC015-081900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
125 PM CDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CALUMET COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 200 PM CDT

* AT 125 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER
  REPORTS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A  
  TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED OVER 
  SOUTHERN LAKE WINNEBAGO. THAT PLACES THE STORM 8 MILES SOUTHEAST 
  OF OSHKOSH. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  EASTERN LAKE WINNEBAGO 140 PM
  BROTHERTOWN 150 PM
  QUINNEY AROUND 150 PM
 

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD GET OFF THE LAKE BEFORE THE STORM
ARRIVES.

LAT...LON 4400 8841 4394 8838 4405 8808 4417 8823

$$

TE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWinnebago43 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.