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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 3, 2006Oconto County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2006, 5:10 PM CDT for Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 65 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 3, 2006, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2006, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oconto County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 3, 5:48 PM CDT	MARINE TSTM WIND 50	4 N Lakewood, WI	NO REPORTED DAMAGE IN THE AREA.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

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 3, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -242 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1718 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGRB 032210
SVRGRB
WIC083-032315-
/O.NEW.KGRB.SV.W.0078.060703T2210Z-060703T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
510 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 615 PM CDT

* AT 508 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM
  WAS LOCATED 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF MOUNTAIN...OR ABOUT 7 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF CRANDON...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TOWNSEND BY 540 PM...
  LAKEWOOD BY 545 PM...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF OUTDOORS...GO TO A STURDY SHELTER.

CAMPERS AND OTHERS OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING
IMMEDIATELY.

LAT...LON 4537 8833 4538 8868 4513 8863 4507 8845
      4510 8816 4520 8819 4521 8831

$$

KURIMSKI

4 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 032224
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
524 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

WIC083-032315-
/O.CON.KGRB.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-060703T2315Z/
OCONTO WI-
524 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT 
FOR NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY...

AT 521 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF TOWNSEND...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF CRANDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TOWNSEND BY 535 PM...
  LAKEWOOD BY 545 PM...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF OUTDOORS...GO TO A STURDY SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE AT A LARGE OUTDOOR GATHERING...REMAIN CALM. FOLLOW THE
INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

LAT...LON 4537 8833 4538 8868 4513 8863 4507 8845
      4510 8816 4520 8819 4521 8831

$$

KURIMSKI

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 032236
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
536 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

WIC083-032315-
/O.CON.KGRB.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-060703T2315Z/
OCONTO WI-
536 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT 
FOR NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY...

AT 533 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE...AND
DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR TOWNSEND...OR ABOUT 21
MILES SOUTHEAST OF CRANDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL OCONTO COUNTY AT 550 PM

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF OUTDOORS...GO TO A STURDY SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE AT A LARGE OUTDOOR GATHERING...REMAIN CALM. FOLLOW THE
INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

LAT...LON 4537 8833 4538 8868 4513 8863 4507 8845
      4510 8816 4520 8819 4521 8831

$$

KURIMSKI

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 032252
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
552 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

WIC083-032315-
/O.CON.KGRB.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-060703T2315Z/
OCONTO WI-
552 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM CDT 
FOR NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY...

AT 550 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS 
LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKEWOOD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHEAST 
OF CRANDON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND HAIL. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. IF OUTDOORS...GO TO A STURDY SHELTER.

IF YOU ARE AT A LARGE OUTDOOR GATHERING...REMAIN CALM. FOLLOW THE
INSTRUCTIONS PROVIDED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

LAT...LON 4537 8833 4538 8868 4513 8863 4507 8845
      4510 8816 4520 8819 4521 8831

$$

KURIMSKI

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 032305
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
605 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

WIC083-032315-
/O.EXP.KGRB.SV.W.0078.000000T0000Z-060703T2315Z/
OCONTO WI-
605 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY 
EXPIRES AT 615 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF
THE AREA.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA UNTIL 10 
PM.

LAT...LON 4537 8833 4538 8868 4513 8863 4507 8845
      4510 8816 4520 8819 4521 8831

$$

KURIMSKI

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 3, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
330 PM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. COLD FRONT MOVING INTO
NORTH-CENTRAL/WESTERN WI. SCATTERED CONVECTION NOW BEGINNING TO DEVELOP
WITH FRONT.  QUESTION IS EFFECTS OF DRIER CONDITIONS CENTRAL AND
NORTHEAST WHERE DUE POINTS REMAIN IN THE UPPER 50S/LOW 60S AND TAMDAR
SOUNDING FROM EAU SHOWING DRY. EARLIER CONVECTION THAT MOVED THROUGH
NORTHERN WI...PUT OUT SIG OUTFLOW THAT HAS PUSHED/KEPT JUICIEST AIR JUST
SOUTH OF CWA. BEST THREAT OF SEVERE LIKELY ALONG THAT BOUNDARY. HAVE
DECIDED TO GO WITH OVERALL SCATTERED WORDING FOR ZONES THIS EVENING...
MENTIONING STRONG STORMS NORTH AND WEST...POSSIBLY SEVERE SOUTHEAST.
WILL END SHOWERS AFTER MIDNIGHT.  AREA OF LOWER CLOUDS ASSOC WITH COLD
UPPER LOW TO SPIN OFF TO NORTH AND EAST OF AREA...THOUGH EXPECT REPEAT
OF SIG CU FORMATION TO ITS SOUTH AND WEST. WILL KEEP SMALL POPS GOING
FOR THE AFTERNOON FAR NORTH. RAISED TEMPS FOR TUE A BIT TO MATCH WARMER
GFS AND CURRENT READINGS UPSTREAM.

.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH NEXT MONDAY.

PATTERN MORE AMPLIFIED EARLY IN PERIOD WITH EAST COAST TROF AND RIDGE
OVER THE CENTRAL STATES.  MID RANGE MODELS CONTINUE TREND SEEN YESTERDAY
OF FLATTENING RIDGE BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND AS ENERGY IS EJECTED OUT
OF WESTERN TROF.  STRONG WESTERLIES EXPECTED TO SET UP AROUND THE
U.S./CANADIAN BORDER. HAVE INTRODUCED CHANCE POPS INTO SUN NIGHT INTO
MONDAY AS FRONT DRAGGED THROUGH AREA. ALSO ADDED SMALL POP NORTH CENTRAL
DAYTIME SUN FOR SOMETHING POSSIBLE COMING OVER RIDGE AS BOTH
GFS/EUROPEAN HINT LLVL JET PUSHING NORTH INTO EASTERN MN. MADE NO OTHER
CHANGE WITH WARM SPELL OF ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS RETURNING THU...INTO THE
WEEKEND.

&&

.GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

TE
WEATHER.GOV/GREENBAY

Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 3, 11:45 AM CDT, 5 hours 25 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1145 AM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-041700-
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-
LINCOLN-LANGLADE-MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-SOUTHERN OCONTO-DOOR-
MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA-
WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-MANITOWOC-
1145 AM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

LITTLE CHANGE IN CURRENT THINKING FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE
AREA...DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. THE PRIMARY RISK
IS DAMAGING WINDS...BUT LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST
RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE BETWEEN NOON AND 1000 PM.

THE STORMS SHOULD EXIT THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE AREA BY LATE
EVENING...ENDING THE RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...INDEPENDENCE DAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL PROBABLY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO
THIS EVENING.

LMZ521-522-541>543-564-041700-
THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND
PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN-THE ADJOINING
WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN OUT TO MID-LAKE-
1145 AM CDT MON JUL 3 2006

...SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS
EVENING...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WATERS OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN GREEN BAY...AND LAKE MICHIGAN FROM ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE
TO SHEBOYGAN.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING HOURS. THE PRIMARY RISK IS OF DAMAGING WINDS...BUT LARGE
HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE
BETWEEN NOON AND 1000 PM.

THE STORMS SHOULD EXIT THE AREA BY LATE EVENING...ENDING THE RISK
OF SEVERE WEATHER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...INDEPENDENCE DAY THROUGH SUNDAY...

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ON SUNDAY. SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT
EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

ECKBERG
WEATHER.GOV/GREENBAY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 3, 4:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
406 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0345 PM     HAIL             LAKE TOMAHAWK           45.81N 89.59W
07/03/2006  M0.50 INCH       ONEIDA             WI   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

ECKBERG

Local storm report, Jul 3, 4:54 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
454 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0353 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CONOVER                 46.04N 89.25W
07/03/2006                   VILAS              WI   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN CONOVER.

&&

ECKBERG

Local storm report, Jul 3, 5:09 PM CDT, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
509 PM CDT MON JUL 03 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0459 PM     HAIL             CRANDON                 45.56N 88.90W
07/03/2006  E1.00 INCH       FOREST             WI   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

ECKBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Vilas	37 min
Jul 3, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Forest	53 min
Jul 3, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		91 min
Jul 3, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Winnebago	45 min
Jul 3, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Oconto	64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.