Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 30, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT for Outagamie County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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 13, 2005, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2005, 3:47 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Outagamie County, WI, Waupaca County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 51 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 861 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 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 132012 TORGRB WIC087-135-132045- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0030.050613T2012Z-050613T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 312 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN OUTAGAMIE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 310 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF WAUPACA... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGAR BUSH BY 320 PM... SHIOCTON BY 325 PM... BEAR CREEK BY 330 PM... LEEMAN BY 340 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4437 8892 4427 8872 4452 8848 4463 8868 $$ KIECKBUSCH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 132018 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 318 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 WIC087-135-132045- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050613T2045Z/ WAUPACA WI-OUTAGAMIE WI- 318 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR WESTERN OUTAGAMIE AND EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTIES... AT 314 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 3 MILES NORTH OF NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGAR BUSH BY 325 PM... BEAR CREEK BY 330 PM... LEEMAN BY 345 PM... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4437 8892 4427 8872 4452 8848 4463 8868 $$ KIECKBUSCH
000 WWUS53 KGRB 132047 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 344 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 WIC087-135-132054- /O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-050613T2045Z/ WAUPACA WI-OUTAGAMIE WI- 344 PM CDT MON JUN 13 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAUPACA COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 345 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN OUTAGAMIE COUNTY HAS BEEN DOWNGRADED TO A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING. THE MAIN THREAT WITH THIS STORM IN OUTAGAMIE COUNTY WILL BE STRONG STRAIGHT LINE WINDS...ALTHOUGH BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWNS ARE STILL POSSIBLE. LAT...LON 4437 8892 4427 8872 4452 8848 4463 8868 $$ KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 57 min |
| Jun 13, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 91 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.