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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 23, 2004Portage County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT for Portage County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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 23, 2004, 7:55 PM CDT (00:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Portage County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 23, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 00:00Z on 2004-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 371 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2004-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
371 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

937 
WFUS53 KGRB 240055
TORGRB
WIC097-240130-


BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
753 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PORTAGE COUNTY IN WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 753 PM CDT...THE PORTAGE COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED A
  TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NEAR STEVENS POINT NEAR THE BUSINESS DISTRICT.
  IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  EAST CENTRAL PORTAGE COUNTY...INCLUDING STEVENS POINT 

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

LAT...LON 4463 8949 4445 8945 4451 8924 4465 8924

$$
TH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBPortage57 min
Jun 23, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaupaca56 min
Jun 23, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBWaupaca28 min
Jun 23, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara51 min
Jun 23, 8:33 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBOutagamie42 min
Jun 23, 8:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWinnebago42 min
Jun 23, 8:59 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBCalumet31 min
Jun 23, 9:14 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBBrown, Outagamie46 min
Jun 23, 9:29 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBManitowoc31 min
Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningGRB87 min
Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningGRB87 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.