Alert archive / Wisconsin / Winter Storm Watches in 2011
Winter Storm Watch 5, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this winter storm watch at Nov 7, 2011, 3:01 PM CST for 7 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Nov 9, 2011, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 2011, 3:01 PM CST (21:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 9, 2011, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Nov 8, 2011, 3:31 PM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 349 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
- 2253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Nov 7, 11:33 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 7, 11:33 AM CST, 3 hours 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 7, 2:47 PM CST, 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 247 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-082100- 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- 247 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A STRONG STORM WILL BRING A SIGNIFICANT PRECIPITATION EVENT TO THE AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS OVER AN INCH ARE POSSIBLE. PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO START OUT EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AS A RAIN AND SNOW MIX OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. HOWEVER...SURFACE TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO BE GREATER THAN FREEZING WHEN THE PRECIPITATION ARRIVES...WHICH WILL CAUSE THE SNOW TO MELT WHEN IT REACHES THE GROUND. THEN ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY...THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR A HEAVY BAND OF SNOW ACROSS WEST CENTRAL INTO NORTHERN WISCONSIN. ALTHOUGH UNCERTAINTY OF THE STORM TRACK REMAINS...EARLY INDICATIONS ARE THAT AN ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL WOULD OCCUR NORTHWEST OF A STEVENS POINT TO IRON MOUNTAIN LINE. ANY SLIGHT VARIATION IN THE STORM TRACK OR THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR COULD SIGNIFICANTLY ALTER LATER FORECASTS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST WINTER WEATHER HEADLINES FOR MORE INFORMATION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TONIGHT. LMZ521-522-541>543-082100- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 247 PM CST MON NOV 7 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY OF WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY GALE FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MPC/RDM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 3:43 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | GRB | 37 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Wisconsin, 2011Every winter storm watch 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.