Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 23, 2004, 8:59 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 23, 2004, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2004, 9:30 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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.
320 WFUS53 KGRB 240159 TORGRB WIC015-240230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 859 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CALUMET COUNTY IN WISCONSIN * UNTIL 930 PM CDT * AT 859 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BROTHERTOWN. THAT PLACES THE STORM 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSHKOSH. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CHARLESBURG AROUND 905 PM... HAYTON AROUND 905 PM... ST ANNA AROUND 910 PM... NEW HOLSTEIN AROUND 910 PM... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4405 8837 4388 8844 4382 8805 4401 8805 $$ KIECKBUSCH
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, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 28 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, 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 |
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.