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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 4, 20079 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this fire weather watch at May 4, 2007, 3:12 PM CDT for 9 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 5, 2007, 3:17 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 4, 2007, 3:12 PM CDT (20:12 UTC)
In effect from
May 5, 2007, 3:17 PM CDT
Expired
May 6, 2007, 5:02 AM CDT
In force
14 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 376 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-05-04Temperature 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, Minneapolis, MN at 12:00Z on 2007-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 265 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
1423 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
265 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
235 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 11:00 AM CDTRed Flag WarningGRBFlorence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marinette, Menominee and 3 more9 hr

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.