Alert archive / Wisconsin / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2008, 6:35 PM CDT for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 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 12, 2008, 6:35 PM CDT (23:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2008, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Manitowoc County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KGRB 122334
TORGRB
WIC071-130015-
/O.NEW.KGRB.TO.W.0005.080612T2335Z-080613T0015Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
635 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MANITOWOC COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...
* UNTIL 715 PM CDT
* AT 632 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES WEST OF CLEVELAND...OR 7
MILES NORTHWEST OF HOWARDS GROVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 71 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VALDERS BY 640 PM...
MANITOWOC BY 650 PM...
TWO CREEKS BY 700 PM...
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND WIDESPREAD DAMAGING WINDS.
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 AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF
DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 4390 8803 4424 8803 4424 8789 4426 8787
4431 8752 4422 8749 4412 8756 4409 8764
4398 8766 4389 8772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2335Z 215DEG 62KT 4393 8790
$$
KURIMSKI3 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KGRB 122347
SVSGRB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
646 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
WIC071-130015-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080613T0015Z/
MANITOWOC-
646 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR MANITOWOC
COUNTY...
AT 641 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...ROUGHLY ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM VALDERS TO HOWARDS GROVE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 48 MPH.
* THE MOST DANGEROUS PART OF THE STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
LARRABEE...SHOTO...MANITOWOC AND FRANCIS CREEK BY 655 PM...
MISHICOT BY 700 PM...
TWO RIVERS AND TWO CREEKS BY 705 PM...
POINT BEACH STATE FOREST BY 710 PM...
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
LAT...LON 4390 8803 4424 8803 4424 8789 4426 8787
4431 8752 4422 8749 4412 8756 4409 8764
4398 8766 4389 8772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2346Z 228DEG 41KT 4418 8781 4391 8776
$$
KURIMSKI000
WWUS53 KGRB 130003
SVSGRB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
703 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
WIC071-130015-
/O.CON.KGRB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080613T0015Z/
MANITOWOC-
703 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CDT FOR MANITOWOC
COUNTY...
AT 658 PM...DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS...CAPOABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES...ROUGHLY ALONG A
LINE EXTENDING FROM TWO CREEKS TO MANITOWOC...AND MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 48 MPH.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
LAT...LON 4390 8803 4424 8803 4424 8789 4426 8787
4431 8752 4422 8749 4412 8756 4409 8764
4398 8766 4389 8772
TIME...MOT...LOC 0003Z 228DEG 41KT 4431 8760 4416 8749
$$
KURIMSKI000
WWUS53 KGRB 130009
SVSGRB
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
708 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
WIC071-130018-
/O.EXP.KGRB.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-080613T0015Z/
MANITOWOC-
708 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR MANITOWOC COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM
CDT...
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED
OUT OF THE AREA.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN
MANITOWOC COUNTY.
LAT...LON 4390 8803 4424 8803 4424 8789 4426 8787
4431 8752 4422 8749 4412 8756 4409 8764
4398 8766 4389 8772
TIME...MOT...LOC 0008Z 228DEG 41KT 4435 8754 4420 8743
$$
KURIMSKIThe office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 8:50 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | Outagamie, Winnebago | 3 days |
| Jun 12, 4:22 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRB | Waushara, Winnebago | 96 min |
| Jun 12, 4:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 56 min |
| Jun 12, 5:01 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 4 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 47 min |
| Jun 12, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 2 hr | |
| Jun 12, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Menominee, Shawano | 24 min |
| Jun 12, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Florence, Forest, Marinette, Oconto | 49 min |
| Jun 12, 5:42 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:19 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Calumet | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc | 51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.