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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 4, 2005Marathon County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT for Marathon 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 4, 2005, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marathon County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 4, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-06-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KGRB 042130
TORGRB
WIC073-042215-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0007.050604T2130Z-050604T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
430 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARATHON COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT

* AT 427 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE
  OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR EDGAR...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF
  WAUSAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  PONIATOWSKI AND RIB FALLS BY 435 PM...
  HAMBURG AND LITTLE CHICAGO BY 450 PM...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9024 4481 9003 4512 8961 4512 9028

$$

ECKBERG
3 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS53 KGRB 042142
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
442 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

WIC073-042215-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050604T2215Z/
MARATHON WI-
442 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR MARATHON
COUNTY...

AT 440 PM...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR ATHENS...OR ABOUT 17 MILES WEST OF WAUSAU...
MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMBURG BY 450 PM...

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9024 4481 9003 4512 8961 4512 9028

$$

KALLAS
000 
WWUS53 KGRB 042157
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
455 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

WIC073-042215-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050604T2215Z/
MARATHON WI-
455 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR MARATHON
COUNTY...

AT 453 PM...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED THE TORNADO WAS 
DISSIPATING. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTH OF ATHENS...OR 
ABOUT 24 MILES NORTHWEST OF WAUSAU...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THIS
TORNADO HAD CREATED DAMAGE NEAR THE ATHENS AREA. 

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO 
THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF 
DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9024 4481 9003 4512 8961 4512 9028

$$

KALLAS
000 
WWUS53 KGRB 042213
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
514 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

WIC073-042224-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-050604T2215Z/
MARATHON WI-
514 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MARATHON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 515 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO LONGER POSES
A SIGNIFICANT THREAT.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR
NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
MIDNIGHT SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN.

LAT...LON 4482 9024 4481 9003 4512 8961 4512 9028

$$

KALLAS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWaushara33 min
Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBWinnebago44 min
Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBWaushara32 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBWinnebago18 min
Jun 4, 3:21 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBWaupaca18 min
Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBLincoln, Oneida26 min
Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBOneida38 min
Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBMarathon24 min
Jun 4, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBMarathon18 min
Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningGRBLincoln43 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.