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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2013, 3:44 PM CDT for Brown County, Calumet County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 61 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
- Jun 17, 2013, 3:44 PM CDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2013, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -352 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 17, 3:28 PM CDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 3:28 PM CDT, 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 328 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR ROUTINE AFTERNOON FORECAST ISSUANCE .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY ISSUED AT 328 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 ONGOING CONVECTION IS THE MAIN CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM...FOLLOWED BY FROST POTENTIAL IN THE NORTH OVERNIGHT. SHOWERS AND STORMS DEVELOPED AS A SHORT WAVE MOVED INTO AN AREA WITH SURFACE TO 1500M LAPSE RATES IN THE 8.5 TO 10 K/KM RANGE...CAPES AROUND OR A LITTLE GREATER THAN 1000J/KG...LITTLE OR NO CIN...AND 0 TO 6 KM SHEAR VALUES OF 35 TO AROUND 50 KTS. THIS CONVECTION WAS NORTH OF THE COLD FRONT THAT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN AT 19Z. ONCE THE SHORT WAVE CLEARS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY THIS EVENING...PRECIPITATION SHOULD COME TO AN END AND SKIES WILL BEGIN TO CLEAR. WEAK SURFACE FLOW AND CLEARING SKIES SHOULD ALLOW TEMPERATURES IN THE FAR NORTH TO COOL OFF ENOUGH TO ALLOW PATCHY FROST TO DEVELOP...BUT IT WILL PROBABLY TAKE A WHILE BEFORE CLOUDS CLEAR THERE...AND NIGHTS ARE RATHER SHORT THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH THE SUMMER SOLSTICE ONLY A FEW DAYS AWAY. A COOLER AIR MASS SHOULD BE IN PLACE ON TUESDAY AND SURFACE FLOW WILL HAVE AN EASTERLY COMPONENT...SO DESPITE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE IT WILL BE COOLER IN MANY LOCATIONS THAN IT WAS TODAY. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY ISSUED AT 328 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONTINUED TO INDICATE THAT NORTHWEST FLOW IN THE UPPER LEVELS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE WESTERN GREAT LAKES FOR MOST OF THE WORK WEEK. FLOW WILL THEN BECOME MORE ZONAL AS A BLOCKING MID-LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE GREAT PLAINS WEAKENS AND ALLOWS PACIFIC ENERGY TO MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE THIS WEEK/THIS WEEKEND. TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...HIGH PRESSURE WILL DRIFT ACROSS THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY NIGHT A SHORTWAVE WILL PASS ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR AND A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE INTO UPPER MICHIGAN. THE BEST UPPER SUPPORT FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL REMAIN NORTH OF WISCONSIN...BUT THERE IS STILL A CHANCE OF SHOWERS WITH ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN FAR NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. PRECIPITATION CHANCES WILL PROGRESS...SPREADING ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA BY FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ON SATURDAY AND THE CHANCE OF STORMS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE INTO MONDAY. && .AVIATION...FOR 18Z TAF ISSUANCE ISSUED AT 102 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 A COLD FRONT EXTENDED ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. CIGS WERE IN THE MVFR CATEGORY FROM AROUND RHI TO MNM NORTHWARD AND THERE WERE SOME SHOWERS THAT MOVED ACROSS UPPER MICHIGAN NEAR THE WISCONSIN BORDER. SHOWERS THAT DEVELOPED ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE FRONT DIED OFF OR MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. SHOWERS AND SOME THUNDERSTORMS WERE QUICKLY DEVELOPING IN CENTRAL AND WEST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...BETWEEN THE FRONT TO THE SOUTHWEST AND THE LOW CLOUDS TO NORTH...AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE. MESOANALYSIS SHOWED STEEP LAPSE RATES FROM THE SURFACE TO 1.5KM ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN WISCONSIN. MUCAPE VALUES WERE IN EXCESS OF 1000J/KG FROM CENTRAL INTO EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THOUGH THERE WAS SOME WEAK CIN IN EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN AWAY FROM THE LAKE AND STRONGER CIN NEAR THE LAKE. EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND STORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AND/OR STRONG WIND GUSTS IN ADDITION TO SCATTERED MVFR AND ISOLATED IFR CIGS AND VSBYS IN SHOWERS/STORMS. CONDITIONS SHOULD BECOME LESS FAVORABLE FOR STORMS BY EVENING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE DISTURBANCE AND LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. EXPECT CLEARING SKIES OVERNIGHT WITH MOSTLY CLEAR/VFR CIGS AND VFR VSBYS DURING THE DAY ON TUESDAY. && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM.....MG LONG TERM......KIECKBUSCH/MG AVIATION.......MG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 17, 3:39 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 339 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-182045- 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- 339 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE GREATEST THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WOULD APPEAR TO BE DURING THE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED TODAY OR TONIGHT. LMZ521-522-541>543-182045- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 339 PM CDT MON JUN 17 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND BRIEF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE GREATEST THREAT OF WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER WOULD APPEAR TO BE DURING THE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME. DENSE MARINE FOG MAY DEVELOP BY NEXT WEEKEND...AS SOUTH WINDS BRING HUMID AIR INTO THE REGION. MG
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Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Langlade, Marathon, Shawano | 47 min |
| Jun 17, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca | 51 min |
| Jun 17, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Shawano | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 3:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Outagamie, Winnebago | 49 min |
| Jun 17, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc | 25 min |
| Jun 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca | 65 min |
| Jun 17, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 77 min | |
| Jun 17, 5:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Calumet, Manitowoc, Outagamie | 42 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wisconsin, 2013Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013
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.