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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 3, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 31, 2011, 7:23 PM CST for Door County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 31, 2011, 7:23 PM CST (01:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2011, 12:54 AM CST
- In force
- 6 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 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 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
- 645 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 305 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Jan 31, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 31, 3:16 PM CST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 510 AM CST MON JAN 31 2011 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-011115- VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-DOOR-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE- WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA-WINNEBAGO-CALUMET- MANITOWOC-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO- 510 AM CST MON JAN 31 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT SNOW MAY LEAD TO SLIPPERY ROADWAYS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY A MAJOR WINTER STORM IS GOING TO SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT TRAVEL ACROSS THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. THIS SYSTEM COULD BRING SNOW TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING...MAINLY SOUTH AND EAST OF A LINE FROM GREEN BAY TO WISCONSIN RAPIDS. THERE IS STILL A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE STORM TRACK WHICH COULD SHIFT OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS AND AFFECT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. STAY TUNED TO LATER FORECASTS... WATCHES AND WARNINGS ON THIS DEVELOPING WINTER STORM...ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE HEADING SOUTH INTO SOUTHERN WISCONSIN OR NORTHERN ILLINOIS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY. LMZ521-522-541>543-011115- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 510 AM CST MON JAN 31 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY INCREASING NORTHEAST WINDS EXPECTED WITH GALE CONDITIONS POSSIBLE TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 31, 4:58 PM CST, 2 hours 25 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 12:54 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | Kewaunee, Manitowoc | 20 hr |
| Feb 1, 12:54 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door | 13 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:50 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | GRB | Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Winnebago | 18 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:50 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | Brown, Door, Outagamie, Waushara | 18 hr |
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Lake Effect Snow Advisories in Wisconsin, 2011Every lake effect snow advisory in 2011
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.