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Snow Advisory 8, NWS Green Bay, WI

February 5, 2008Calumet County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this snow advisory at Feb 5, 2008, 3:49 AM CST for Calumet County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 5, 2008, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2008, 3:49 AM CST (09:49 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 5, 2008, 9:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 5, 2008, 2:23 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Calumet County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:55 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 344 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 441 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 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 snow 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 snow advisory went out at Feb 4, 7:47 PM CST, 8 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 4, 7:47 PM CST, 8 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 5, 2:23 PM CST	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	GRB	Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Waushara and 1 more	22 hr
Feb 5, 2:23 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	Calumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago	13 hr

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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.