Alert archive / Wisconsin / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 2012, 8:37 AM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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
- May 3, 2012, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2012, 9:02 AM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Waushara County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:36 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 565 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
905 WUUS53 KGRB 031337 SVRGRB WIC137-031415- /O.NEW.KGRB.SV.W.0003.120503T1337Z-120503T1415Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 837 AM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EASTERN WAUSHARA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN... * UNTIL 915 AM CDT * AT 832 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WAUTOMA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... REDGRANITE AROUND 850 AM CDT. OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE SAXEVILLE...PINE RIVER...POY SIPPI...AURORAVILLE...WEST BLOOMFIELD AND BORTH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. && LAT...LON 4424 8890 4399 8889 4398 8924 4423 8924 TIME...MOT...LOC 1336Z 264DEG 32KT 4411 8925 WIND...HAIL <50MPH 1.00IN $$ ECKBERG
1 follow-up statement
434 WWUS53 KGRB 031402 SVSGRB SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 902 AM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 WIC137-031411- /O.CAN.KGRB.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120503T1415Z/ WAUSHARA WI- 902 AM CDT THU MAY 3 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN WAUSHARA COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. HOWEVER GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE AS SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS WAUSHARA COUNTY THROUGH 10 AM. LAT...LON 4424 8890 4399 8889 4398 8924 4423 8924 TIME...MOT...LOC 1401Z 264DEG 32KT 4413 8894 $$ ECKBERG
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:55 PM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | GRB | 8 hr | |
| May 3, 1:48 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 3 hr |
| May 3, 2:13 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 6 hr |
| May 3, 4:57 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRB | Winnebago | 3 hr |
| May 3, 5:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 34 min |
| May 3, 7:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | GRB | Calumet, Winnebago | 4 hr |
| May 3, 7:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Waushara | 47 min |
| May 3, 8:08 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRB | Portage, Wood | 114 min |
| May 3, 10:12 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRB | Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc | 80 min |
| May 3, 10:36 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 71 min |
Nearby
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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.