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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 5, 2005Waupaca County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 5:36 PM CDT for Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 24 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 5, 2005, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 24 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 5, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 69 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 052236
TORGRB
WIC135-052300-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0013.050605T2236Z-050605T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
536 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAUPACA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAUPACA

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 531 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CLINTONVILLE BY 600 PM...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS.

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 4426 8920 4426 8880 4460 8875 4465 8866
      4466 8917

$$

KURIMSKI

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 052246
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
546 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

WIC135-052300-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050605T2300Z/
WAUPACA WI-
546 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR WAUPACA COUNTY...

AT 544 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SYMCO...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF
WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MARION AND CLINTONVILLE BY 555 PM...

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

LAT...LON 4426 8920 4426 8880 4460 8875 4465 8866
      4466 8917

$$

KURIMSKI

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 052258
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

WIC135-052308-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050605T2300Z/
WAUPACA WI-
558 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAUPACA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 600 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A 
SIGNIFICANT THREAT. THE STORM MAY STILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 45 
MPH.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM SUNDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4426 8920 4426 8880 4460 8875 4465 8866
      4466 8917

$$

KURIMSKI

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 1:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	27 min
Jun 5, 2:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Waupaca	60 min
Jun 5, 2:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Shawano	31 min
Jun 5, 3:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Oconto	55 min
Jun 5, 3:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Shawano	34 min
Jun 5, 3:21 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		54 min
Jun 5, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida, Vilas	85 min
Jun 5, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage	46 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	37 min
Jun 5, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee, Shawano	42 min
Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oconto	57 min
Jun 5, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	63 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.