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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Green Bay, WI

September 2, 2010Portage County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 2, 2010, 5:07 PM CDT for Portage County, Waupaca County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 2010, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 2010, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Portage County, WI, Waupaca County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2010-09-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 430 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2010-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 2, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
250 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010

.SHORT TERM...TNGT AND FRI. SEVERAL POTENTIAL PBLMS TO DEAL WITH
OVER THE NXT 24 HRS RANGING FROM PCPN CHCS TNGT AND AGAIN FRI...
GUSTY WNDS ON FRI AND THEN MAX TEMPS FOR FRI AS MUCH COOLER AIR
SET TO INVADE THE WRN GREAT LKS.

THE 19Z MSAS SFC ANALYSIS SHOWED A CDFNT EXTENDED GENERALLY EAST
OF A DLH-MSP LINE AND MAKING STEADY PROGRESS INTO WI. EXPECT TO
SEE THE FNT REACH CNTRL WI BY EVENING. RADAR MOSAIC WAS PICKING UP
SEVERAL AREAS OF PCPN...ONE TO THE EAST ASSOCIATED WITH A PASSING
SHRTWV AND THE SECOND IN THE VCNTY OF THE CDFNT. FINALLY...WV SATL
IMAGERY INDICATED A RATHER STG LONGWV TROF MOVG THRU THE NRN
PLAINS HEADED TO THE EAST.

THE CDFNT TO COMPLETE ITS PASSAGE THRU ERN WI BY EARLY EVENING AS
THE STG LONGWV TROF PUSHES INTO THE UPR MS VALLEY. HIGHEST POPS TO
BE IN THE EAST WITH THE FNT IN THE VCNTY...BUT QUICKLY DIMINISH TO
SCT OR ISOLATED SHWRS BEHIND THE FROPA AS A DRY SLOT MOVS EAST.
DURING THE OVRNGT HRS...THE LONGWV TROF REACHES THE WRN GREAT LKS
RGN WITH WRAP-AROUND MSTR ROTATING SEWD INTO NRN WI. CANNOT RULE
OUT A FEW LGT SHWRS AS A SHRTWV MOVS E-SE THRU THE UPR TROF. THE
ONSET OF STG CAA AND INCREASING WEST WNDS WL BRING A COMPLETELY
DIFFERENT AIR MASS INTO NE WI TNGT. 8H TEMPS CRASH TO AROUND +6C
WITH DEW PTS FALLING THRU THE 50S. LOOK FOR MIN TEMPS TO SETTLE
INTO THE LWR-MID 50S INLAND...55-60 DEGS NEAR THE BAY AND LAKE.

THE LONGWV TROF TO RESIDE OVR THE GREAT LKS ON FRI WITH A
PREVAILING NW FLOW ALOFT MOVG OVR WI. COOL AIR ALOFT COMBINED WITH
DAYTIME HEATING WL GENERATE ENUF INSTABILITY TO BRING A PRETTY
GOOD CHC OF SHWRS TO ALL OF NE WI. BEST CHC TO OCCUR OVR VILAS
CNTY WHERE SOME LK ENHANCEMENT FROM SUPERIOR TO TAKE PLACE (EARLY
TASTE OF LK EFFECT!). THE OTHER MAJOR STORY FOR FRI WL BE THE
WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED DUE TO A TIGHT PRES GRAD BETWEEN STG LOW
PRES OVR ONTARIO AND HI PRES OVR THE PLAINS. WND GUSTS THO MAY BE
TEMPERED A BIT DUE TO THE ANTICIPATED CLD CVR. NONETHELESS...EXPECT
TO SEE A FEW GUSTS REACH THE 30 TO 40 MPH RANGE. AN AUTUMNAL FEEL
TO THE AIR WL BE NOTED ON FRI WITH MAX TEMPS ONLY IN THE 50S NORTH
AND LWR 60S CNTRL AND EAST.

.LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT THURSDAY.

UPPER LOW VCNTY MN AND CANADIAN BORDER WILL LIFT INTO ONTARIO BY
SAT MORNING...THEN FURTHER INTO QUEBEC BY SUN MORNING. CYCLONIC
FLOW WILL CONTINUE OVER AREA THROUGH SAT...THEN WESTERN RIDGE TO
BUILD EAST FOR SUN WITH RECOVERING HEIGHTS/TEMPS. MADE LITTLE
CHANGE TO EARLY NEXT WEEK PERIOD...KEEPING PCPN CHANCES WITH WARM
FRONT LATE SUN/MON AND COLD FRONT ON TUES. OP RUNS DEVIATING FROM
RESPECTIVE MEANS LATER PERIODS LEADING TO LOW CONFIDENCE FORECAST.
TUE FRONT COULD LINGER CLOSE TO AREA INTO MID NEXT WEEK. ATTM WILL
BET ON CANADIAN HIGH PUSHING FRONT TO OUR SOUTH. 850 TEMPS/5H
HEIGHTS POINT TO TEMPS AT OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL FOR EARLY SEP.

FOR FRI NIGHT/SAT...SECONDARY TROF PASSES THROUGH EARLY IN THE
EVENING...SENDING COLDER/DRIER AIR SOUTHEAST. EXCEPT FOR POSSIBLE
LES RAIN SHOWERS NORTH...DRIER AIR WITH DEWS POSSIBLY DROPPING
INTO THE 30S SHOULD LIMIT SHOWER ACTIVITY/CLOUD COVER FRI NIGHT AND
SAT.
&&

.AVIATION...GENERALLY VFR CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED THIS EVENING
WITH A BRIEF DOWNTURN TO MVFR CIGS/VSBYS DUE TO THE PASSAGE OF A
CDFNT. AS COLDER AIR MOVS INTO THE RGN OVRNGT...POTENTIAL EXISTS
FOR MVFR CIGS TO DVLP WITH IFR CIGS PSBL BETWEEN 08Z-12Z OVR THE
RHI...CWA AND AUW TAF SITES. EXPECT MVFR CIGS TO CONT ON FRI...AS
INCREASING INSTABILITY SHOULD PRODUCE SCT SHWR ACTIVITY. IN
ADDITION TO THE PCPN CHCS...A WINDY DAY ON TAP OVR ALL OF NE WI
WITH SUSTAINED SFC WNDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS.
&&

.MARINE...DEEPENING LOW PRES OVER ONTARIO WILL PRODUCE STRONG
SMALL CRAFT CONDITIONS ON LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE BAY LATE TONIGHT
AND FRI WITH GALE CONDITIONS POSSIBLE FRI AFTERNOON INTO
SATURDAY. UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR WILL MOVE SOUTH OVER WARM LAKE
WATERS LEADING TO STRONG MIXING. WINDS JUST OFF THE SURFACE WILL
INCREASE TO 35 TO 45 KTS BY LATE IN DAY FRI. BEST CHANCE FOR GALE
CONDITIONS FRI NIGHT AS WINDS SHIFT TO NW.

 &&

.GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&

KALLAS/TE
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 3:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
305 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010

WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-032015-
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE-
MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-DOOR-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-
WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA-WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-
MANITOWOC-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO-
305 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING AS A
COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. THE MAIN THREAT APPEARS TO BE
DAMAGING WINDS ALONG WITH A SMALL RISK OF LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS MAY IMPACT NORTHERN DOOR COUNTY ON FRIDAY
AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. GUSTS TO 40 TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE NEXT MONDAY AND TUESDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING.

LMZ521-522-541>543-032015-
THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK
ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN-
305 PM CDT THU SEP 2 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE
MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN THIS EVENING. GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THE STRONGEST STORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

DEEPENING LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR WILL PRODUCE
STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS FRIDAY THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY. A
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT THROUGH FRIDAY. GALE FORCE WINDS AND
LARGE WAVES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM LATER FRIDAY. MARINERS
SHOULD STAY AWARE OF THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WARNINGS AS WE MOVE
INTO THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND.

AK

In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 4:22 AM CDTGale WatchGRB24 hr
Sep 2, 7:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRBLincoln, Marathon48 min
Sep 2, 10:23 AM CDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGRB33 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.