Alert archive / Wisconsin / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 2, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this freeze warning at Mar 28, 2012, 2:12 PM CDT for 15 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 29, 2012, 2:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2012, 2:12 PM CDT (19:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 29, 2012, 2:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2012, 4:11 AM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:10 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 879 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420 WWUS73 KGRB 281912 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 212 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT. A COOL...DRY AIR MASS COMBINED WITH DIMINISHING WINDS... WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHERN WISCONSIN TO DROP WELL BELOW FREEZING. WIZ005-010>013-018>021-290300- /O.NEW.KGRB.FZ.W.0002.120329T0700Z-120329T1400Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA 212 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY. * TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO BETWEEN 24 AND 29 DEGREES AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. * COLD-SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO SEVERE DAMAGE DUE TO THE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ AK
2 follow-up statements
449 WWUS73 KGRB 290213 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 913 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZING TEMPERATURES EXPECTED TONIGHT... .A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. A COOL DRY AIR MASS...COMBINED WITH LIGHT WINDS...WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN TO DROP WELL BELOW FREEZING. WIZ030-031-035>037-045-291400- /O.EXA.KGRB.FZ.W.0002.120329T0700Z-120329T1400Z/ MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-WAUSHARA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS... STEVENS POINT...WAUTOMA 913 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS ISSUED A FREEZE WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY. * TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO BETWEEN 25 AND 29 DEGREES LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY. * COLD-SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO SEVERE DAMAGE DUE TO THE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ WIZ005-010>013-018>021-291400- /O.CON.KGRB.FZ.W.0002.120329T0700Z-120329T1400Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA 913 PM CDT WED MAR 28 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM CDT THURSDAY... * TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP TO BETWEEN 22 AND 28 DEGREES LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY THURSDAY. * COLD-SENSITIVE VEGETATION WILL BE EXTREMELY VULNERABLE TO SEVERE DAMAGE DUE TO THE SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FREEZE WARNING MEANS SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. THESE CONDITIONS WILL KILL CROPS AND OTHER SENSITIVE VEGETATION. && $$ KIECKBUSCH
117 WWUS73 KGRB 290911 NPWGRB URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 411 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 WIZ005-010>013-018>021-030-031-035>037-045-291015- /O.CAN.KGRB.FZ.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120329T1400Z/ VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA- WAUSHARA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS... STEVENS POINT...WAUTOMA 411 AM CDT THU MAR 29 2012 ...FREEZE WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY HAS CANCELLED THE FREEZE WARNING. $$ JS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 9:46 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRB | 18 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Wisconsin, 2012Every freeze warning in 2012
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.