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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Green Bay, WI
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 33 min |
| Jun 4, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 44 min |
| Jun 4, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waushara | 32 min |
| Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln, Oneida | 26 min |
| Jun 4, 5:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Oneida | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 24 min |
| Jun 4, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 18 min |
| Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Lincoln | 43 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.