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Snow Advisory 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this snow advisory at Jan 31, 2008, 3:32 AM CST for 10 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jan 31, 2008, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2008, 3:32 AM CST (09:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 31, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2008, 8:53 AM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Jan 31, 3:10 AM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 3:10 AM CST, 22 minutes before
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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.