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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 15, 200615 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this red flag warning at Jul 15, 2006, 11:01 AM CDT for 15 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jul 15, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 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: Jul 15, 2006, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 15, 2006, 12:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 15, 2006, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 103 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: 115 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS83 KGRB 151601
RFWGRB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
1101 AM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING ISSUED FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN FROM
NOON TO 9 PM CDT TODAY...

.DRY CONDITIONS ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL
COMBINE WITH TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 90S...LOW HUMIDITY AND
GUSTY WEST OR SOUTHWEST WINDS TO PRODUCE CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER
CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

WIZ005-010>013-018>021-030-031-035>037-045-073-074-160200-
/O.NEW.KGRB.FW.W.0002.060715T1700Z-060716T0200Z/
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE-
MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-
WAUSHARA-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO-
1101 AM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING FOR NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN...WHICH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. TEMPERATURE ARE EXPECTED TO CLIMB
WELL INTO THE 90S THIS AFTERNOON WHILE HUMIDITY WILL DROP TO LESS
THAN 25 PERCENT. WEST OR SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO RANGE
FROM 10 TO 20 MPH BUT WILL BE GUSTY AT TIMES. THE WEATHER
CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO COMBINE WITH VERY DRY FUELS TO PRODUCE
CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OVER NORTHEAST AND CENTRAL
WISCONSIN.

A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS
ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. THIS INFORMATION
SHOULD BE DISSEMINATED TO ALL FIRE CONTROL PERSONNEL.

$$
TH/MG

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS83 KGRB 160150
RFWGRB

RED FLAG WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
850 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 900 PM...

.TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY FALL DURING THE REST OF THE EVENING.
THAT COMBINED WITH DIMINISHING WINDS AND SLOWLY INCREASING
HUMIDITIES WILL LEAD TO THE END OF RED FLAG CONDITIONS ACROSS THE
AREA. 

WIZ005-010>013-018>021-030-031-035>037-045-073-074-160300-
/O.EXP.KGRB.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-060716T0200Z/
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE-
MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-
WAUSHARA-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO-
850 PM CDT SAT JUL 15 2006

...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING...

THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING. 

$$

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