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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 27, 2006Oconto County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2006, 5:32 PM CDT for Oconto County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 28 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: May 27, 2006, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2006, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 28 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), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 92 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 272233
TORGRB
WIC083-272300-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0003.060527T2232Z-060527T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
532 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OCONTO COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 530 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES NORTH OF MOUNTAIN...OR ABOUT
  29 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CRANDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

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

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A TORNADO MAY NOT BE OCCURRING WHEN THE WARNING IS ISSUED...BUT ONE
COULD DEVELOP AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS
STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND GO TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 4516 8863 4516 8831 4538 8830 4538 8864

$$

KURIMSKI

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 272243
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
542 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006

WIC083-272300-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060527T2300Z/
OCONTO WI-
542 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR OCONTO
COUNTY...

AT 539 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS 
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKEWOOD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE NICOLET 
NATIONAL FOREST IN NORTHERN OCONTO COUNTY.

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES STRONG ROTATION WITH 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.

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

LAT...LON 4516 8863 4516 8831 4538 8830 4538 8864

$$

KURIMSKI

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 272252
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
551 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006

WIC083-272301-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060527T2300Z/
OCONTO WI-
551 PM CDT SAT MAY 27 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR OCONTO COUNTY EXPIRES AT 600 PM CDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND 
MOVED OUT OF OCONTO COUNTY.

HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH 
THIS THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4516 8863 4516 8831 4538 8830 4538 8864

$$

KURIMSKI

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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.