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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2005, 7:45 PM CDT for Outagamie County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 30 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, 7:45 PM CDT (00:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2005, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 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 00:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 832 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 190045 TORGRB WIC087-135-190115- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0033.050819T0045Z-050819T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 745 PM CDT THU AUG 18 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 815 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGAR BUSH BY 805 PM... SHIOCTON BY 815 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS. 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. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4436 8893 4424 8874 4448 8843 4462 8867 $$ KURIMSKI
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 190058 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 755 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC087-135-190115- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050819T0115Z/ OUTAGAMIE WI-WAUPACA WI- 755 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EASTERN WAUPACA AND OUTAGAMIE COUNTIES... AT 750 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NEW LONDON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SUGAR BUSH BY 810 PM... BEAR CREEK BY 815 PM... IN ADDITION A LARGE ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS SEEN NORTH OF MENASHA AND HEADED INTO SOUTHERN OUTAGAMIE. ANOTHER ROTATING WALL CLOUD WAS SEEN BY A TRAINED SPOTTER NORTH OF WAYAWEGA IN EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY. ANY OF THESE CIRCULATIONS COULD REACH THE GROUND AS A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. THE TORNADO WARNING NOW INCLUDES ALL OF OUTAGAMIE COUNTY. LAT...LON 4436 8893 4424 8874 4448 8843 4462 8867 $$ KURIMSKI
000 WWUS53 KGRB 190106 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 805 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC087-190115- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050819T0115Z/ OUTAGAMIE WI- 805 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR OUTAGAMIE COUNTY IS EXTENDED... THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WESTERN OUTAGAMIE COUNTY WAS EXTENDED UNTIL 830 PM AND INCLUDES THE ENTIRE COUNTY. LAT...LON 4426 8898 4424 8874 4465 8873 4465 8880 $$ WIC135-190115- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050819T0115Z/ WAUPACA WI- 805 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY... AT 803 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTHPORT...OR ABOUT 11 MILES EAST OF WAUPACA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... NORTHPORT AND NEW LONDON BY 810 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 4426 8898 4424 8874 4465 8873 4465 8880 $$ KURIMSKI
000 WWUS53 KGRB 190112 RRA SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 813 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 WIC135-190123- /O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0033.000000T0000Z-050819T0115Z/ WAUPACA WI- 813 PM CDT THU AUG 18 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN WAUPACA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS. LAT...LON 4426 8898 4424 8874 4465 8873 4465 8880 $$ KURIMSKI
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 27 min |
| Aug 18, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Outagamie | 28 min |
| Aug 18, 9:46 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.