Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2006
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 2006, 6:26 PM CDT for Calumet County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 18, 2006, 6:26 PM CDT (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Calumet County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:44 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Brillion, WI |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 182327 TORGRB WIC015-190000- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0007.060618T2326Z-060619T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 626 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CALUMET COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN * UNTIL 700 PM CDT * AT 622 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF BRILLION...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF APPLETON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A WATERSPOUT WAS REPORTED ON NORTHEAST LAKE WINNEBAGO AT AROUND 620 PM CDT. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRILLION BY 640 PM... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE WATERSPOUTS ON LAKE WINNEBAGO. WINDS CAN EXCEED 60 MPH IN A WATERSPOUT. IF YOU SEE A WATERSPOUT... MOVE TO SHORE IMMEDIATELY. IF THE WATERSPOUT REACHES SHORE...DAMAGING WINDS COULD AFFECT STRUCTURES ON LAND. IF INSIDE A BUILDING...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4424 8838 4406 8839 4403 8805 4423 8806 $$ KIECKBUSCH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KGRB 182339 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 2006 WIC015-190000- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060619T0000Z/ CALUMET WI- 639 PM CDT SUN JUN 18 2006 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CDT FOR CALUMET COUNTY... AT 635 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED 2 MILES NORTH OF HILBERT...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF APPLETON...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BRILLION AND POTTER BY 645 PM... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES STRONG ROTATION WITH THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. LAT...LON 4424 8838 4406 8839 4403 8805 4423 8806 $$ KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:30 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | GRB | 90 min | |
| Jun 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 88 min | |
| Jun 18, 5:46 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | GRB | 89 min | |
| Jun 18, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Outagamie | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 38 min |
| Jun 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 87 min | |
| Jun 18, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 61 min |
| Jun 18, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet | 32 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.