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Tornado Warning 19, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2005, 8:18 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 45 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 7, 2005, 8:18 PM CDT (01:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2005, 9:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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 7, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1819 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 080120 TORGRB WIC141-080200- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0019.050608T0118Z-050608T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 818 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WOOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS * UNTIL 900 PM CDT * AT 815 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PITTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. A ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS OBSERVED WITH THIS STORM WEST OF DEXTERVILLE AT 812 PM CDT. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WISCONSIN RAPIDS BY 840 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 MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4451 9030 4433 9028 4437 8975 4456 8989 $$ HELMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 080135 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 835 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC141-080200- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050608T0200Z/ WOOD WI- 835 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR WOOD COUNTY... AT 832 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PITTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES WEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... ARPIN BY 840 PM... VESPER BY 850 PM... A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4451 9030 4433 9028 4437 8975 4456 8989 $$ HELMAN
000 WWUS53 KGRB 080203 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 900 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 WIC141-080210- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0019.000000T0000Z-050608T0200Z/ WOOD WI- 900 PM CDT TUE JUN 7 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WOOD COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS OF TORNADOES. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. MORE STORMS WILL BE AFFECTING WOOD COUNTY THIS EVENING. LAT...LON 4451 9030 4433 9028 4437 8975 4456 8989 $$ HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Forest | 50 min |
| Jun 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 65 min |
| Jun 7, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Oconto | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 8:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Langlade, Oconto | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 7, 9:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 9:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Wood | 4 hr |
| Jun 7, 10:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 51 min |
| Jun 7, 10:32 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 88 min | |
| Jun 7, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown | 27 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.