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Winter Weather Advisory 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI

April 18, 20114 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this winter weather advisory at Apr 18, 2011, 9:45 PM CDT for 4 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Apr 19, 2011, 11:49 AM CDT. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 18, 2011, 9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 19, 2011, 11:49 AM CDT
Expired
Apr 19, 2011, 9:41 PM CDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 246 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2011-04-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Davenport, at 00:00Z on 2011-04-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
641 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
152 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 winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Apr 18, 3:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 3:20 PM CDT, 6 hours 25 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 18, 2:56 PM CDT, 6 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
256 PM CDT MON APR 18 2011

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-192000-
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE-
WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE-
LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA-
256 PM CDT MON APR 18 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A MIXTURE OF LIGHT RAIN...SLEET AND SNOW IS LIKELY LATE
TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MILWAUKEE TO
MADISON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY
EVENING AS A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TRACKS OUT OF THE KANSAS
OKLAHOMA AREA TONIGHT AND INTO LOWER MICHIGAN BY WEDNESDAY
MORNING.

THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING A MESSY MIXTURE OF RAIN...SLEET
AND SNOW TO THE AREA TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. SNOW AND SLEET
MAY ACCUMULATE TO AROUND 6 INCHES IN THE REEDSBURG...PORTAGE...MONTELLO
AND GREEN LAKE AREAS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A WINTER STORM WATCH
HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS AREA. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES MAY BE
ISSUED EAST OF THE WATCH AREA DUE TO THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION
EXPECTED.

YET ANOTHER LOW MAY MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS FRIDAY MORNING
TOWARDS LOWER MICHIGAN LATE FRIDAY NIGHT..BRINGING A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NEXT MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED THIS WEEK HOWEVER SNOWFALL
REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED.

LMZ643>646-192000-
SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI-
PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI-
NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI-
WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL-
256 PM CDT MON APR 18 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL AFFECT LAKE MICHIGAN FROM TUESDAY
THROUGH WEDNESDAY....RESULTING IN BRISK WINDS AND HIGH WAVES. A
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY HAS BEEN POSTED FROM 7 AM CDT TUESDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY EVENING.

THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

YET ANOTHER LOW MAY MOVE ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS FRIDAY TOWARDS
LOWER MICHIGAN BY LATE FRIDAY NIGHT..BRINGING A CHANCE OF
THUNDERSTORMS ON FRIDAY...ALONG WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL
CRAFT ADVISORIES.

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MKX

MBK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 9:45 PM CDTWinter Storm WarningMKXFond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette24 hr
Apr 19, 4:46 AM CDTGale WarningMKX16 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Wisconsin, 2011Every winter weather 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.