Strong Wind, Door
- When
- July 4, 9:20 PM CST to 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Door forecast zone
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 44.838, -87.358 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Strong Wind in Wisconsin, July 4, 2001
Strong winds behind a cold front produced gusts to 36 knots at the Washington Island Coast Guard station, and gusts to 35 knots at the airport in Sturgeon bay as the front passed through the county. Waves of 5 to 6 feet were reported on the Bay of Green Bay.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
Strong winds behind a cold front produced gusts to 36 knots at the Washington Island Coast Guard station, and gusts to 35 knots at the airport in Sturgeon bay as the front passed through the county. Waves of 5 to 6 feet were reported on the Bay of Green Bay.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jul 4, 1:30 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 1:30 PM CST, 7 hours 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 230 PM CDT WED JUL 4 2001 MAIN FORECAST PROBLEMS ARE TEMPERATURES FOR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY NIGHT...THEN RAIN CHANCES BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. WISCONSIN WILL BE UNDER THE WESTERN SIDE OF A DEEPENING UPPER TROUGH TONIGHT AND THURSDAY...THEN TEMPORARILY UNDER AN UPPER RIDGE BY THURSDAY NIGHT. THE FLOW OVER THE AREA FLATTENS OUT LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY AS A SHORT WAVE RUNS INTO THE RIDGE. AT THE SURFACE...THE NORTHERN FLOW BETWEEN THE SURFACE LOW SOUTH OF HUDSON BAY AND A COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM FURTHER WEST WILL STEER ANOTHER SHOT OF VERY COOL AIR INTO THE REGION. COOLER AIR HAS BEEN SLOW TO ADVANCE INTO THE AREA TODAY. A SECONDARY SURGE WAS MARKED BY THE LEADING EDGE OF A CUMULUS FIELD DROPPING SOUTH INTO LAKE SUPERIOR AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA AT 19Z. EVEN THOUGH SIGNIFICANT COLD ADVECTION WILL TAKE PLACE TONIGHT...WINDS AND SOME POTENTIAL PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES SHOULD SERVE TO HOLD THE READINGS UP. THE COLDER NIGHT FOR MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA WILL BE THURSDAY NIGHT AS THE CENTER OF THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM SITS OVER THE REGION AT LEAST FOR THE EVENING HOURS. THE ONE FLY IN THE OINTMENT IS THAT WARM ADVECTION ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE HIGH PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL START TO OCCUR AT LEAST JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES OF THE FORECAST AREA. ALSO...THE NEXT SHORT WAVE WILL BE MOVING INTO A REGION OF STRONGER WARM ADVECTION UPSTREAM OF WISCONSIN AND WILL LIKELY INITIATE THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPEMENT. THE CIRRUS SHIELD WOULD THEN LIMIT COOLING AS IT SPREADS OVER THE WESTERN COUNTIES LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. BEST COMBINATION OF COLDER AIR...LIGHT WINDS AND NO CLOUDS WILL OCCUR OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST CORNER COUNTIES NEAR THE MICHIGAN BORDER. COULD SEE SOME UPPER 30S IN THAT AREA. MODELS ARE BOUNCING AROUND A BIT ON TIMING OF THE SHORT WAVE. ETA IS FASTEST ON 12Z RUN...WITH THE OTHER MODELS SLOWER. EITHER WAY...LOOKS LIKE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE POSSIBLE IN NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY FRIDAY AFTERNOON. OTHER PARTS OF FORECAST AREA QUESTIONABLE BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT. COORD W MQT...THANX. .GRB...NONE. KENNEDY WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Strong Wind
- Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat and Drought in Oklahoma, July 4 to 31, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- High Surf in Puerto Rico, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Utah, July 4, 2001
- Heat in Illinois, July 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 4, 2001
- Tornado in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 4, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 2001
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kentucky, July 4, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, July 4, 2001
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, July 2001
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5262507.