Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2005, 4:11 PM CDT for Calumet County, Winnebago 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
- May 6, 2005, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2005, 4:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Calumet County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1679 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -59 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 062113 TORGRB WIC015-139-062145- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0003.050506T2111Z-050506T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 411 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALUMET COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN WINNEBAGO COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 445 PM CDT * AT 409 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CENTRAL LAKE WINNEBAGO...OR EAST OF OSHKOSH...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... QUINNEY...BROTHERTOWN AND STOCKBRIDGE BY 435 PM CDT JERICHO BY 440 PM CDT IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES ESPECIALLY LAKE WINNEBAGO SHOULD GET OFF THE LAKE BEFORE THE STORM ARRIVES. LAT...LON 4415 8847 4396 8850 4394 8819 4415 8819 $$ TE
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 062132 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 430 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 WIC139-062140- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050506T2145Z/ WINNEBAGO WI- 430 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WINNEBAGO COUNTY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 4414 8840 4394 8841 4394 8819 4414 8819 $$ WIC015-062145- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050506T2145Z/ CALUMET WI- 430 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR CALUMET COUNTY... AT 429 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A WATERSPOUT OVER SOUTHERN LAKE WINNEBAGO. IT WAS LOCATED WEST OF BROTHERTOWN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OSHKOSH...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BROTHERTOWN BY 440 PM CDT JERICHO BY 445 PM CDT A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 4414 8840 4394 8841 4394 8819 4414 8819 $$ TE
000 WWUS53 KGRB 062142 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 439 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 WIC015-062149- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-050506T2145Z/ CALUMET WI- 439 PM CDT FRI MAY 6 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CALUMET COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. LAT...LON 4414 8840 4394 8841 4394 8819 4414 8819 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Door, Kewaunee | 63 min |
| May 6, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 45 min |
| May 6, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 55 min |
| May 6, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 35 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.