Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 32, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 6:36 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 18, 2005, 6:36 PM CDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2005, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Waushara County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 206 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 182336 TORGRB WIC137-190015- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0032.050818T2336Z-050819T0015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 636 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WAUSHARA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF WAUTOMA * UNTIL 715 PM CDT * AT 632 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WAUTOMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... REDGRANITE BY 645 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4397 8940 4396 8890 4423 8889 4423 8938 $$ KURIMSKI
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 182350 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 650 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC137-190015- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-050819T0015Z/ WAUSHARA WI- 650 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR WAUSHARA COUNTY... AT 645 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR REDGRANITE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF WAUTOMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... POY SIPPI BY 655 PM... TUSTIN...BORTH AND WEST BLOOMFIELD BY 700 PM... THIS STORM PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE TO TREES 3 MILES SOUTH OF WAUTOMA AT 635 PM. LAT...LON 4397 8940 4396 8890 4423 8889 4423 8938 $$ KURIMSKI
000 WWUS53 KGRB 190004 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 704 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC137-190015- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-050819T0015Z/ WAUSHARA WI- 704 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR WAUSHARA COUNTY... AT 658 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR POY SIPPI...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF WAUTOMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WILL BE NEAR... WEST BLOOMFIELD BY 710 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 4397 8940 4396 8890 4423 8889 4423 8938 $$ KURIMSKI
000 WWUS53 KGRB 190011 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 711 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC137-190021- /O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0032.000000T0000Z-050819T0015Z/ WAUSHARA WI- 711 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAUSHARA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 715 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 900 PM. LAT...LON 4397 8940 4396 8890 4423 8889 4423 8938 $$ KURIMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage | 53 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.