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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI

February 24, 200911 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this winter storm watch at Feb 24, 2009, 3:04 PM CST for 11 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 26, 2009, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2009, 3:04 PM CST (21:04 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 26, 2009, 12:00 PM CST
Expired: Feb 25, 2009, 3:48 PM CST
In force
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 24, 4:40 AM CST, 10 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 4:40 AM CST, 10 hours 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 12:36 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.