Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Mar 25, 2007, 7:43 PM CDT for Langlade County, Menominee County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports 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
- Mar 25, 2007, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2007, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Langlade County, WI, Menominee County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 7:45 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 10 Nnw Neopit, WI | |
| Mar 25, 7:55 PM CDT | HAIL 1.5 | White Lake, WI | TIME APPROX. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 5:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 1047 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 260043 TORGRB WIC067-078-260115- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0001.070326T0043Z-070326T0115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 743 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST LANGLADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN... NORTHWEST MENOMINEE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 742 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF WHITE LAKE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST OF ANTIGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... WHITE LAKE BY 800 PM... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LAT...LON 4517 8904 4499 8896 4510 8868 4529 8869 $$ KALLAS
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 260054 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 754 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 WIC067-078-260115- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070326T0115Z/ LANGLADE WI-MENOMINEE WI- 754 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR NORTHWEST MENOMINEE AND SOUTHEAST LANGLADE COUNTIES... AT 750 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR ELTON...OR ABOUT 17 MILES EAST OF ANTIGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO SAFE STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD. LAT...LON 4521 8890 4505 8882 4510 8868 4529 8869 $$ KALLAS
000 WWUS53 KGRB 260103 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 802 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 WIC078-260112- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070326T0115Z/ MENOMINEE WI- 802 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWEST MENOMINEE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWEST MENOMINEE COUNTY HAD MOVED OUT OF THE NORTHWEST MENOMINEE COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWEST MENOMINEE COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4521 8890 4512 8885 4512 8866 4529 8869 $$ WIC067-260115- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070326T0115Z/ LANGLADE WI- 802 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM CDT FOR SOUTHEAST LANGLADE COUNTY... AT 759 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR LANGLADE...OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF ANTIGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. LAT...LON 4521 8890 4512 8885 4512 8866 4529 8869 $$ KALLAS
000 WWUS53 KGRB 260110 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 810 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 WIC067-260120- /O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070326T0115Z/ LANGLADE WI- 810 PM CDT SUN MAR 25 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST LANGLADE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815 PM CDT... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA. LAT...LON 4521 8890 4512 8885 4512 8866 4529 8869 $$ KALLAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee, Shawano | 29 min |
| Mar 25, 7:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waupaca | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Oconto | 24 min |
| Mar 25, 8:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 11:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 45 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Wisconsin, 2007Every tornado warning in 2007Tornadoes in 2007
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.