GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Pre-dawn storms Sunday morning has the National Weather Service office in Ashwaubenon issuing a tornado warning for Brown and Outagamie County a little after 3 a. m..
Sirens going off and people told to seek shelter immediately.
Tom Helman is a NWS meteorologist.
“we started off with warnings and we started to see some signatures of a radar indicated possible tornado”
He says there was reported damage in the Bear Creek and Seymour area of Outagamie County, but no tornado confirmation.
The storm, which contained lots of rain, thunder and lightning, lost a little of its punch by the time it made it through Brown County and the warning was canceled.
Helman says the nighttime situations can be tricky for warnings and following the path of a tornado since there’s not much a spotter can report in the dark.
“overnights can be tough because it’s dark out, people are in bed. it’s hard to get that information out in a timely manner…so we have to rely more on radar”
The stormy weather also has the folks at Wisconsin Public Service ready to go when it comes to power outages.
Lisa Prunty is with WPS.and says the prep work started Saturday afternoon.
“watching the weather as it hit, and we start to evaluate those heavy hit areas”
Power outages in Brown and Outagamie County kept to a minimum.
But thousands were in the dark for parts of the northwoods and north central Wisconsin.
