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Heavy Snow Warning 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI

December 3, 2005Kenosha County, Milwaukee County, Racine County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this heavy snow warning at Dec 3, 2005, 12:40 PM CST for Kenosha County, Milwaukee County, Racine County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Dec 3, 2005, 4:00 PM CST. It was in force for 11 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 3, 2005, 12:40 PM CST (18:40 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 3, 2005, 4:00 PM CST
Expired: Dec 4, 2005, 2:31 AM CST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 987 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heavy snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this heavy snow warning went out at Dec 3, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 9:30 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 3, 8:57 AM CST	Snow Advisory	MKX	Dane, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Lafayette, Ozaukee and 4 more	15 hr
Dec 3, 8:57 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	MKX	Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine	4 hr

Nearby

Heavy Snow Warnings in Wisconsin, 2005 Every heavy snow warning in 2005

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.