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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 7, 2007, 4:25 PM CDT for Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 20 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 7, 2007, 4:25 PM CDT (21:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2007, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 20 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 21:28 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 7, 4:26 PM CDT | HAIL 4.25 | Wisconsin Rapids, WI | DOWNTOWN |
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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 072126 TORGRB WIC141-072200- /O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0009.070607T2125Z-070607T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 425 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT * AT 422 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO IN THE CITY OF WISCONSIN RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... BIRON BY 430 PM... A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 4427 9013 4425 8986 4426 8974 4447 8974 $$ TH
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS53 KGRB 072129 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 428 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 WIC141-072200- /O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070607T2200Z/ WOOD WI- 428 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CDT FOR WOOD COUNTY... AT 426 PM...DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN WISCONSIN RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. THIS STORM ALSO PRODUCED SOFTBALL SIZE HAIL IN DOWNTOWN WISCONSIN RAPIDS. A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO... SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF NO UNDERGROUND SHELTER IS AVAILABLE... MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. LAT...LON 4427 9013 4425 8986 4426 8974 4447 8974 $$ HELMAN
000 WWUS53 KGRB 072145 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 444 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 WIC141-072154- /O.CAN.KGRB.TO.W.0009.000000T0000Z-070607T2200Z/ WOOD WI- 444 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEAST WOOD COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. THERE ARE NO OTHER WARNINGS IN EFFECT AT THIS TIME. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. LAT...LON 4427 9013 4425 8986 4426 8974 4447 8974 $$ 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, 3:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Wood | 43 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, 4:26 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.