Alert archive / Wisconsin / High Wind Warnings in 2008
High Wind Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this high wind warning at Dec 6, 2008, 2:02 PM CST for Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 10 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 6, 2008, 2:02 PM CST (20:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 6, 2008, 11:34 PM CST
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
County Door County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KGRB 062002 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 202 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...WINDS GUSTS TO 55 MPH OVER DOOR COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON... .VERY STRONG WINDS IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT WERE OCCURRING OVER DOOR COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WIZ022-070600- /O.NEW.KGRB.HW.W.0001.081206T2002Z-081207T0600Z/ DOOR- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...STURGEON BAY 202 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT CST TONIGHT. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO AROUND 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING HOURS OVER DOOR COUNTY. THE STRONGER WINDS WILL BE FELT MAINLY OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. TREE BRANCHES AND POWER LINES CAN COME DOWN IN WINDS THESE STRONG. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE IN THESE CONDITIONS. $$ TH
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS73 KGRB 062123 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 323 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...WINDS GUSTS TO NEAR 55 MPH OVER DOOR COUNTY EARLY TODAY... .VERY STRONG WINDS IN THE WAKE OF A COLD FRONT WERE OCCURRING OVER DOOR COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. WIZ022-070430- /O.EXT.KGRB.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-081207T0900Z/ DOOR- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...STURGEON BAY 323 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST SUNDAY... THE HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST SUNDAY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO AROUND 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT OVER DOOR COUNTY. THE STRONGER WINDS WILL BE FELT MAINLY OVER NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS NEAR 60 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. TREE BRANCHES AND POWER LINES CAN COME DOWN IN WINDS THESE STRONG. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE DIFFICULT TO DRIVE IN THESE CONDITIONS. $$
000 WWUS73 KGRB 070256 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 856 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...STRONG WINDS EXPECTED OVER THE NORTHERN DOOR PENINSULA EARLY TONIGHT... .VERY STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE DOOR PENINSULA EARLY TONIGHT. THE WIND WILL START TO DIMINISH AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIZ022-070900- /O.CON.KGRB.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-081207T0900Z/ DOOR- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...STURGEON BAY 856 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST SUNDAY... A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 AM CST SUNDAY. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25 TO 40 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO AROUND 55 MPH WILL CONTINUE OVER NORTHERN DOOR COUNTY EARLY TONIGHT. A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO DRIVE IN THESE CONDITIONS. $$ JS
000 WWUS73 KGRB 070534 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1134 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 WIZ022-070645- /O.CAN.KGRB.HW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-081207T0900Z/ DOOR- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...STURGEON BAY 1134 PM CST SAT DEC 6 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS HAVE STARTED TO DIMINISH...AND WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY DO SO THE REST OF THE NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. $$ JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 6, 5:06 AM CST | Gale Warning | GRB | 23 hr | |
| Dec 6, 9:53 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | Door, Oneida, Vilas | 14 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.