Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 8:02 PM CDT for Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 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, 8:02 PM CDT (01:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Waupaca County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
746 WFUS53 KGRB 240102 TORGRB WIC135-240130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 801 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAUPACA COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 830 PM CDT * AT 801 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO LOCATED NEAR RURAL. THAT PLACES THE STORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WAUPACA. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... KING AROUND 805 PM... LIND CENTER AROUND 825 PM... WEYAUWEGA AROUND 830 PM... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. LAT...LON 4437 8923 4425 8922 4426 8893 4443 8891 $$ HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage | 57 min |
| Jun 23, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 56 min |
| Jun 23, 7:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 8:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 8:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 42 min |
| Jun 23, 8:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Calumet | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 9:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Brown, Outagamie | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 9:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 87 min | |
| Jun 23, 9:48 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 87 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.