Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jul 11, 2004, 6:25 PM CDT for Marathon County, Portage County, Shawano County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 50 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 11, 2004, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2004, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Marathon County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 112325 TORGRB WIC073-097-115-120015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 623 PM CDT SUN JUL 11 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARATHON COUNTY IN WISCONSIN NORTHEAST PORTAGE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN WESTERN SHAWANO COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 623 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A FUNNEL CLOUD LOCATED NEAR ROSHOLT. THAT PLACES THE STORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF STEVENS POINT. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GALLOWAY AROUND 650 PM... ELDERON AROUND 715 PM... WITTENBERG AROUND 715 PM... ANOTHER CLUSTER OF STORMS WAS PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS JUST EAST OF STRATFORD. THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS COULD DIP TO THE GROUND AND PRODUCE BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS. THIS TYPE OF TORNADO IS TYPICALLY WEAK AND SHORT-LIVED. HOWEVER...IF THE TORNADO IS MOVING TOWARD YOUR AREA...MOVE INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4473 8998 4459 8927 4501 8902 4504 8991 $$ SKOWRONSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 25 min |
| Jul 11, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Marathon | 45 min |
| Jul 11, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 28 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2004Every tornado warning in 2004Tornadoes in 2004
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.