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Wind Chill Advisory 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

February 18, 200622 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 18, 2006, 4:28 AM CST for 22 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 18, 2006, 3:05 PM CST. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 18, 2006, 4:28 AM CST (10:28 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 18, 2006, 3:05 PM CST
Expired
Feb 19, 2006, 10:00 AM CST
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
All 22 counties

Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:27 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 387 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2006-02-18Temperature 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, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2006-02-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -52 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 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
1413 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
196 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 wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 18, 3:30 AM CST, 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:30 AM CST, 58 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 4:45 AM CST, 23 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
445 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006

WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-181200-
VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-
LINCOLN-LANGLADE-MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-SOUTHERN OCONTO-DOOR-
MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA-
WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-MANITOWOC-
445 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A VERY COLD ARCTIC AIR MASS WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT.
TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO FALL TO THE 15 TO 25 BELOW ZERO RANGE
OVERNIGHT.   WEST WINDS OF 10 TO 15 MPH WILL COMBINE WITH THE SUBZERO
TEMPERATURES TO PRODUCE DANGEROUSLY LOW WINDS CHILLS RANGING FROM AROUND
45 BELOW NORTH TO AROUND 35 BELOW OVER EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN.  WIND
CHILLS THIS LOW CAN PRODUCE FROST BITE IN LESS THAN 10 MINUTES.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS OF 35 TO 45 BELOW WILL CONTINUE INTO SATURDAY
MORNING BEFORE IMPROVING TO THE 10 TO 20 BELOW ZERO RANGE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD ANY STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL REPORTS TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LMZ521-522-541>543-564-181200-
THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND
PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN-THE ADJOINING
WISCONSIN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN OUT TO MID-LAKE-
445 AM CST FRI FEB 17 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE WATERS OF CENTRAL AND
SOUTHERN GREEN BAY...AND LAKE MICHIGAN FROM ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE
TO SHEBOYGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

GALE WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR THE OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN FOR
TODAY AND TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

TDH/RDM
WEATHER.GOV/GREENBAY

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Wisconsin, 2006Every wind chill advisory in 2006

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.