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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

November 22, 2005Vilas County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this winter storm watch at Nov 22, 2005, 4:05 PM CST for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Nov 23, 2005, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 34 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 22, 2005, 4:05 PM CST (22:05 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 23, 2005, 6:00 PM CST
Expired
Nov 25, 2005, 4:04 AM CST
In force
34 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI

County Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-11-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2005-11-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1219 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.