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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Green Bay, WI

October 23, 2004Outagamie County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Oct 23, 2004, 2:33 PM CDT for Outagamie County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 27 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: Oct 23, 2004, 2:33 PM CDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired: Oct 23, 2004, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Outagamie County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 27 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 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.

000 
WFUS53 KGRB 231933
TORGRB
WIC087-232000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
230 PM CDT SAT OCT 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS REISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OUTAGAMIE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 230 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. SEVERAL
  REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM.
  THE MOST  DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MACKVILLE.
  THAT PLACES THE STORM 5 MILES NORTH OF APPLETON. IT WAS MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  FREEDOM BY 245 PM CDT...

MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
BUILDING.

LAT...LON 4435 8852 4425 8841 4437 8823 4449 8831

$$

HELMAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Winnebago	59 min
Oct 23, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Portage	51 min
Oct 23, 2:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Winnebago	24 min
Oct 23, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Winnebago	49 min
Oct 23, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown	53 min
Oct 23, 2:53 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		67 min
Oct 23, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		95 min
Oct 23, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		95 min
Oct 23, 3:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Outagamie	41 min

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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.