Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2007, 3:02 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 7, 2007, 3:02 PM CDT (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2007, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wood County, WI
The radar
The La Crosse radar (KARX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 3:43 PM CDT | TORNADO | 4 Nw Vesper, WI | BRIEF TORNADO |
| Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDT | HAIL 0.5 | Pittsville, WI |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 11:34 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -754 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRB 072002 TORGRB WIC141-072045- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0005.070607T2002Z-070607T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 302 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 345 PM CDT * AT 258 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF PITTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEILLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PITTSVILLE BY 315 PM... MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR BUILDING. LAT...LON 4457 9030 4436 9031 4448 8986 4465 8994 $$ HELMAN
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 072013 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 313 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 WIC141-072045- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070607T2045Z/ WOOD WI- 313 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY... AT 311 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED 9 MILES WEST OF BETHEL...OR ABOUT 18 MILES EAST OF NEILLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BETHEL BY 320 PM... ARPIN BY 325 PM... AUBURNDALE BY 330 PM... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES STRONG ROTATION WITH THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. CAMPERS AND OTHERS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING IMMEDIATELY. LAT...LON 4456 9029 4441 9031 4453 8989 4467 8999 $$ HELMAN
000 WWUS53 KGRB 072023 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 323 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 WIC141-072045- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070607T2045Z/ WOOD WI- 323 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHERN WOOD COUNTY... AT 319 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BETHEL...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. 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. LAT...LON 4456 9029 4441 9031 4453 8989 4467 8999 $$ HELMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 4:23 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 16 more | 15 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Wood | 58 min |
| Jun 7, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marathon | 66 min |
| Jun 7, 3:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Wood | 44 min |
| Jun 7, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marathon | 47 min |
| Jun 7, 4:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Shawano | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Wood | 20 min |
| Jun 7, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Portage | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee | 46 min |
| Jun 7, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Shawano | 33 min |
| Jun 7, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Oconto | 39 min |
| Jun 7, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Marinette | 41 min |
| Jun 7, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Shawano | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Waushara | 27 min |
| Jun 7, 5:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Oconto | 23 min |
| Jun 7, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 73 min | |
| Jun 7, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 43 min |
| Jun 7, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 22 min |
| Jun 7, 6:50 PM CDT | Marine Weather Statement | GRB | 85 min | |
| Jun 7, 6:54 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 61 min |
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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.