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Special Marine Warning 39, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 17, 2002

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this special marine warning at Jul 17, 2002, 7:24 PM CDT. It was in force for 66 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
Jul 17, 2002, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2002, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Area
Whole counties

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special marine 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 special marine warning went out at Jul 17, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 3:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
325 PM CDT WED JUL 17 2002

MAIN FCST CONCERN THIS FCST CYCLE WL BE TIMING WK FNTL BOUNDARIES
DROPPING THRU THE RGN AND PCPN TRENDS.

THE 19Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A NRLY E-W FNTL BNDRY ROUGHLY NORTH OF A
LINE FROM MANISTIQUE TO DULUTH. TEMPS SOUTH OF THE FNT HAVE CLIMBED TO
AROUND 90 OVR MOST AREAS WITH DEW PTS AROUND 70. INSTABILITY HAS
STEADILY BEEN INCREASING OVR NRN WI WHERE CAPES NOW > 2000 J/KG. SATL
IMAGERY AND RADAR MOSAIC HAS SHOWN TSTMS QUICKLY DEVELOPING ALONG AND
SOUTH OF THE FNT. CONVERGENCE ALONG THE FNT NOT OVERLY IMPRESSIVE AND
LTL IF ANY MID-LVL SUPPORT TO BE FOUND. HOWEVER...THERE IS A BROAD UPR
LVL DIFFLUENCE FROM RIGHT ENTRANCE RGN OF JET MOVG ACROSS ERN ONTARIO/
WRN QUEBEC. WL LIKELY HAVE TO WATCH THESE STORMS FOR A WHILE THIS
EVENING FOR ANY ISOLATED SVR POTENTIAL (LRG HAIL/DAMAGING WND GUST).

CURRENT THINKING IS THAT CONVECTION WL CONT INTO THE EVENING UNTIL
SUNSET AND THEN GRADUALLY WEAKEN. FNT TO SAG SOUTH OVRNGT AND RESIDE OVR
S-CNTRL WI BY 12Z THU. WL KEEP EVENING PCPN WORDING GOING FOR THE NORTH
AND OPEN ENDED CHC FOR THE SRN SECTIONS OF THE FCST AREA. MDLS DIFFER
SOMEWHAT WITH RESPECT TO QPF ON THU. MDLS DO AGREE ON TAKING FNT FROM
SRN WI INTO NRN IL BY 00Z FRI. BELIEVE ETA (AND AVN TO A DEGREE) IS
CATCHING ON TO MCS OVR THE NRN PLAINS AND TAKING REMNANTS SE ALONG
THICKNESS LINES. CAPES WL BE IN THE 1-2K RANGE SO INSTABILITY WL BE
PRESENT. PENDING ON WHERE FNTL BNDRY ENDS UP...THERE IS STILL A CHC OF
TSTMS THU AFTERNOON OVR THE SRN HALF OF WI.

WK HI PRES SETTLES INTO THE GREAT LKS RGN THU NGT SO EXPECT A DRY AND
COOLER NGT. THERE MAY BE A WK FNT TRYING TO DROP SOUTH ON FRI BUT LACK
OF MSTR AND DYNAMICS PRECLUDE ANY PCPN MENTION AT THE MOMENT.

APRS THE NXT CHC OF PCPN OCCURS ON SUNDAY THO EXTENDED MDLS HAVE TIMING
DIFFERENCES WITH RESPECT TO HANDLING OF FNTL BOUNDARIES. THE ECMWF AND
UKMET SAG A BNDRY SOUTH EARLY ON SUNDAY...WHILE THE AVN AND CANADIAN
HOLD BNDRY BACK UNTIL LATE SUNDAY. THERE ALSO COULD BE A WRMFNT TRYING
TO LIFT BACK NORTH (ASSUMING THE SLOWER SPD OF BNDRY). DUE TO
UNCERTAINTY OF FNTL POSITIONS...PREFER TO MENTION AT THE LEAST A CHC OF
SHWRS/TSTMS OVR THE FCST AREA. THIS UNCERTAINLY CONTS INTO MON...THO
MDLS DO HINT THAT BNDRY TO BE SOUTH OF FCST AREA BY AFTERNOON.

GUID TEMPS ARE REASONABLY CLOSE NXT 48 HRS. USED A BLEND FOR TEMPS.

.GRB...NONE.

KALLAS
WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/GRB

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 7:24 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningGRB66 min
Jul 17, 7:24 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningGRB66 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.