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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 25, 2016Waushara County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2016, 4:05 PM CDT for Waushara County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 25 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: May 25, 2016, 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
Expired: May 25, 2016, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Waushara County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
May 25, 4:24 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Coloma, WI	LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTS ONE SMALL TREE DOWN IN COLOMA ON CTY FF

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

762 
WUUS53 KGRB 252105
SVRGRB
WIC137-252130-
/O.NEW.KGRB.SV.W.0004.160525T2105Z-160525T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
405 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAUSHARA COUNTY IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN...

* UNTIL 430 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 10 MILES EAST OF
  FRIENDSHIP...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WAUTOMA AROUND 430 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HANCOCK...
MOUNT MORRIS...WILD ROSE...HEFFRON...SAXEVILLE...DAKOTA...RICHFORD...COLOMA
AND SILVER LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4398 8960 4423 8960 4425 8959 4424 8905
      4398 8928
TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 245DEG 34KT 4403 8962 

HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

ECKBERG

1 follow-up statement

872 
WWUS53 KGRB 252121
SVSGRB

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
421 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

WIC137-252130-
/O.CON.KGRB.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160525T2130Z/
WAUSHARA WI-
421 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM CDT
FOR WESTERN WAUSHARA COUNTY...

AT 421 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES WEST OF
WAUTOMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO 
         ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

THIS SEVERE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WAUTOMA AROUND 425 PM CDT. 

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE HANCOCK...
MOUNT MORRIS...WILD ROSE...SAXEVILLE...DAKOTA...RICHFORD...COLOMA AND
SILVER LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4399 8958 4422 8958 4424 8957 4424 8905
      4398 8928
TIME...MOT...LOC 2121Z 249DEG 42KT 4408 8946 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

ECKBERG

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Florence	40 min
May 24, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	33 min
May 25, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Wood	55 min
May 25, 3:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon, Portage, Waupaca	36 min
May 25, 4:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Winnebago	51 min
May 25, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Portage, Waupaca, Waushara	45 min
May 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Waupaca, Winnebago	43 min
May 25, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Wood	26 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.