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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this heat advisory at Jul 30, 2006, 4:41 AM CDT for 20 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jul 30, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 56 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 30, 2006, 4:41 AM CDT (09:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 30, 2006, 7:00 PM CDT
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2006, 3:13 AM CDT
- In force
- 56 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 157 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1394 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1325 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 30, 3:51 AM CDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 3:51 AM CDT, 50 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 351 AM CDT SUN JUL 30 2006 .DISCUSSION... MAIN THEME WILL BE HOT AND HUMID THROUGH TUESDAY AND POSSIBLY WEDNESDAY AS NEXT SIGNIFICANT FRONT NOT DUE UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. IN SHORT TERM...SEVERE MCS IN NORTHERN WISCONSIN RIDING ALONG THE EDGE OF SIGNIFICANT 700 MB CAP. HOWEVER...GFS/NAM/RUC ALL HINT ON ISOLATED STORMS EITHER FROM REMNANTS OF MCS CLIPPING MAINLY NORTHEAST PART OF CWA OR FROM ACCAS BOMBS ON TOP OF CAP. THERE WAS A COUPLE OF ATTEMPTS AT THIS EARLIER IN WESTERN PORTION OF CWA AS SOME 50 DBZ ECHOES DID DEVELOP BRIEFLY WITHIN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. SINCE WARMEST 700 MB TEMPS ARE WEST WENT AHEAD AND LEFT OUT PRECIP FAR WEST AND JUST ISOLATED CENTRAL AND EAST TODAY. ALTHOUGH RADAR LOOKS PRETTY SCARY AS STORMS SURGE SOUTH CURRENTLY...DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW MCS CAN TURN TO FAR SOUTH WITHOUT SUFFERING THE FATE OF THE DEATH CAP WITH +14C OR WARMER AT 700 MB. THUS...EXPECT IT TO RIDE THE ISOTHERMS EAST SOUTHEAST AND STAY JUST NORTH OF CWA. WILL BE A CLOSE CALL THOUGH. WITH SOME EXTRA CLOUD COVER AND LAKE BREEZE LIKELY TODAY WITH WEAK GRADIENT...LEFT COASTAL COUNTIES OUT OF HEAT ADVISORY TODAY BUT WENT AHEAD WITH HEAT ADVISORY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT OTHERWISE. EVEN LIMITING DEWPOINTS TO 75 TODAY HAVE SEVERAL HOURS AT OR ABOVE 105 ON THE HEAT INDEX CENTRAL AND WESTERN ZONES. GFS MAV MOS YIELDS 100 DEGREE HEAT ON MONDAY. LOOKING AT 850 MB TEMPERATURE FORECASTS...ESPECIALLY FOR GFS...IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE HOW WE COULD GET MUCH ABOVE THE MIDDLE 90S DURING THE EVENT. HOWEVER...MODERATE WESTERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW COULD RESULT IN DOWNSLOPE IN THE COASTAL AREAS MONDAY SO WENT AHEAD WITH UPPER 90S BOTH MONDAY AND TUESDAY. ALTHOUGH MAY SEE MORE MIXING OF THE DEWPOINTS IN THE AFTERNOONS MONDAY AND TUESDAY IT SHOULD BE HOTTER AND COVER THE 105 HEAT INDEX FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL HOURS. GFS AND 18Z DGEX ONLY TEASES THE NORTHERN CWA FOR THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY NIGHT SO HAVE HIGHEST POPS FOR WEDNESDAY AND WENT BELOW GUIDANCE ON POPS TUESDAY NIGHT. SIGNIFICANT COOLING ON TAP FOR LATE WEEK AS 850 MB TEMPS FALL NEARLY 15 C TO ABOUT 10 C FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. GUIDANCE KEEPS TEMPERATURES NEAR CLIMO LEVELS BUT 850 MB TEMPERATURES SUPPORT HIGHS IN THE 70S. FOR NOW WILL ROLL WITH GUIDANCE. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... HEAT ADVISORY FROM 7 AM MONDAY TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR WIZ052- WIZ060-WIZ066-WIZ071-WIZ072. HEAT ADVISORY FROM NOON TODAY TO 7 AM CDT WEDNESDAY FOR WIZ046- WIZ047-WIZ051-WIZ056-WIZ057-WIZ058-WIZ059-WIZ062-WIZ063-WIZ064- WIZ065-WIZ067-WIZ068-WIZ069-WIZ070. && MVK/11 - SHORT TERM & AVIATION CRAVEN/02 - LONG TERM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 6:45 PM CDT, 9 hours 56 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 6:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette | 53 min |
| Jul 30, 7:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Sheboygan | 76 min |
| Jul 30, 7:17 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 88 min | |
| Jul 30, 7:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Dodge | 59 min |
| Jul 30, 7:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Fond du Lac | 29 min |
| Jul 30, 7:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Washington | 53 min |
| Jul 30, 7:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Columbia, Marquette | 29 min |
| Jul 30, 8:06 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MKX | Columbia | 15 min |
| Jul 30, 8:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Ozaukee | 51 min |
| Jul 30, 8:14 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 61 min | |
| Jul 30, 8:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Jefferson, Waukesha | 73 min |
| Jul 30, 8:26 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Milwaukee | 64 min |
| Jul 30, 8:33 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 87 min | |
| Jul 30, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MKX | Kenosha, Racine | 40 min |
| Jul 30, 9:55 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MKX | 50 min |
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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.