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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2005, 4:37 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 26 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, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2005, 5:03 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Lincoln County, WI, Oneida County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 171 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:40 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 042138 TORGRB WIC069-085-042200- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0008.050604T2137Z-050604T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 437 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN ONEIDA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 436 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOMAHAWK...OR ABOUT 23 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RHINELANDER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO WAS 5 MILES WEST OF MERRILL. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRADLEY AND HEAFFORD JUNCTION BY 445 PM... HARSHAW BY 500 PM... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. 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 4518 9003 4517 8974 4582 8939 4582 9000 $$ ECKBERG
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 042147 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 447 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC069-085-042200- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050604T2200Z/ ONEIDA WI-LINCOLN WI- 447 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...A TORNADO WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR LINCOLN AND ONEIDA COUNTIES... AT 444 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BRADLEY...OR ABOUT 21 MILES WEST OF RHINELANDER...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WILLOW RESERVOIR BY 500 PM... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4518 9003 4517 8974 4582 8939 4582 9000 $$ KALLAS
000 WWUS53 KGRB 042203 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 503 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 WIC069-085-042213- /O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-050604T2200Z/ ONEIDA WI-LINCOLN WI- 503 PM CDT SAT JUN 4 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LINCOLN AND ONEIDA COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 500 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAS WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES A SIGNIFICANT THREAT. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM SATURDAY EVENING FOR NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN. LAT...LON 4518 9003 4517 8974 4582 8939 4582 9000 $$ 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, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 45 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.