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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 28, 2006Lincoln County, Oneida County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2006, 9:21 PM CDT for Lincoln County, Oneida County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 28, 2006, 9:21 PM CDT (02:21 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2006, 10:15 PM CDT
In force: 54 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), 165 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:23 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 28, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1504 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 6.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 28, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 7:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 7:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 28, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 7:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	48 min
Jul 29, 5:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida, Vilas	43 min
Jul 29, 7:23 AM CDT	Marine Weather Statement	GRB		97 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.