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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Green Bay, WI

June 6, 2006Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 29 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 6, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2006, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Waushara County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 1482 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 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 
WFUS53 KGRB 062346
TORGRB
WIC137-070015-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0006.060606T2346Z-060607T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
646 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAUSHARA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN

* UNTIL 715 PM CDT

* AT 642 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR WAUTOMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
  25 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  REDGRANITE BY 705 PM...

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.

LAT...LON 4417 8939 4400 8945 4399 8910 4415 8902

EB
$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 070002
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
701 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

WIC137-070015-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-060607T0015Z/
WAUSHARA WI-
701 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR WAUSHARA
COUNTY...

AT 659 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO.  
THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SILVER LAKE...OR ABOUT 1 MILE 
SOUTHEAST OF WAUTOMA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SPRING LAKE AND LOHRVILLE BY 710 PM...

LAT...LON 4417 8939 4400 8945 4399 8910 4415 8902

$$

EB

000 
WWUS53 KGRB 070014
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
714 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

WIC137-070024-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-060607T0015Z/
WAUSHARA WI-
714 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WAUSHARA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 715 PM CDT...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND HAS 
MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4417 8939 4400 8945 4399 8910 4415 8902

EB
$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 4:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln	46 min
Jun 6, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	46 min
Jun 6, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Wood	41 min
Jun 6, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln	45 min
Jun 6, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	34 min
Jun 6, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Wood	43 min
Jun 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Waushara	60 min
Jun 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Waupaca, Wood	57 min
Jun 6, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Waupaca, Wood	31 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.