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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 4, 2005Marathon County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 6:27 PM CDT for Marathon County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 18 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 4, 2005, 6:27 PM CDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2005, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marathon County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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 4, 3:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 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 042327
TORGRB
WIC073-042345-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0011.050604T2327Z-050604T2345Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
627 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARATHON COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 645 PM CDT

* AT 623 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LITTLE CHICAGO...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST
  OF WAUSAU...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMBURG AT 640 PM

SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. DO NOT RUN OUTSIDE TO FIND THE TORNADO.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
MIDNIGHT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4486 9011 4479 8988 4512 8965 4513 9010

$$

KALLAS

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 042344
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
643 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

WIC073-042353-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0011.000000T0000Z-050604T2345Z/
MARATHON WI-
643 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MARATHON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 645 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES
A SIGNIFICANT THREAT.

LAT...LON 4486 9011 4479 8988 4512 8965 4513 9010

$$

KALLAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	33 min
Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Winnebago	44 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Waushara	32 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Winnebago	18 min
Jun 4, 3:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Waupaca	18 min
Jun 4, 4:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marathon	45 min
Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Lincoln, Oneida	26 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Oneida	38 min
Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marathon	24 min
Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Lincoln	43 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.