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Special Marine Warning 4, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this special marine warning at May 28, 2012, 4:16 PM CDT. It was in force for 44 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 2012, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special marine warning 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 special marine warning went out at May 28, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 316 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND TUESDAY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 308 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. SCATTERED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT NORTHEAST WISCONSIN BY 8 PM. SKIES WILL BECOME CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY THIS EVENING...EXCEPT OVER THE FAR NORTHWEST WHERE THERE WILL BE A LINGERING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS THIS EVENING. IT WILL BE CONSIDERABLY COOLER ON TUESDAY WITH HIGHS STRUGGLING TO REACH 60 ACROSS THE NORTH DUE TO CLOUD COVER AND PRECIPITATION. HIGHS ACROSS THE FAR SOUTH AND ACROSS THE LAKESHORE REGION SHOULD MAKE IT TO 70 TO 75 DUE TO MORE SUNSHINE. THE BIG STORY WILL BE THE WIND. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT MONDAY...MAIN FCST CONCERNS ARE COOLER TEMPERATURES AND MINOR PCPN CHANCES. COOLER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO THE REGION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PERIOD...WITH 850 MB TEMPS DROPPING TO -2 TO -3 IN NORTHERN WI BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. A S/W TROF AND JET STREAK MAY BRING A FEW SHOWERS ON TUESDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER NC WI. WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE COOLEST DAY OF THE WEEK...WITH HIGHS ONLY TOPPING OUT IN THE MID 50S TO LOWER 60S. STILL EXPECT THAT SKIES WILL BE CLEAR ENOUGH AND WINDS LIGHT ENOUGH TO ALLOW SOME FROST TO DEVELOP OVER NC/FAR NE WI LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. MODELS SHOW SOME SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES WITH REGARD TO AN UPPER TROF/UPPER LOW THAT DEVELOPS OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON WEDNESDAY... THEN MOVES TOWARD THIS REGION DURING THE LATTER HALF OF THE WEEK. THE GFS DROPS THE UPPER LOW SOUTHEAST INTO SE NEB/SW IA BY THURSDAY...PIVOTS IT BACK TO THE NE INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION ON FRI/FRI NGT...THEN PULLS IT OUT TO THE EAST ON SATURDAY. THE ECMWF TAKES THE NORTHERN PLAINS UPPER LOW DUE EAST...PASSES IT THROUGH WI ON THU NGT/FRI...THEN TAKE IT EAST OF RGN ON FRIDAY NIGHT. HPC FAVORS THE ECMWF...BUT EITHER WAY...THE BULK OF THE PCPN WITH THIS SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO PASS TO OUR SOUTH...AS SFC HIGH PRESSURE PROVIDES SOME PROTECTION ACROSS NORTHERN WI. HAVE KEPT SOME SMALL POPS OVER OUR SOUTHERN COUNTIES FROM LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY NIGHT...AND A CHANCE ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA ON FRIDAY. WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN PLACE AND SOME UPPER LEVEL RIDGING OCCURRING OVER THE WEEKEND...EXPECTED GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS... WITH A GRADUAL MODERATION IN TEMPERATURES. AS HIGH PRESSURE SHIFTS EAST EARLY NEXT WEEK...A WARM FRONT MAY LIFT NORTH INTO THE REGION...RESULTING IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND TSTMS. && .AVIATION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. IT APPEARS THE CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DIMINISHED AT KRHI...KRRL...KEGV...KLNL...AND KTKV. SOME OF THE STRONGER THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST WISCONSIN COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 50 KNOTS...LARGE HAIL AND SOME OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL END BY 8 PM ACROSS THE AREA..EXCEPT OVER THE NORTHWEST WHERE THERE WILL BE A LINGERING CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EVENING. THERE COULD BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF GUSTY WINDS AROUND 20 TO 25 KNOTS BETWEEN 04Z AND 09Z AS COLD ADVECTION AND SUBSIDE SHOULD ALLOW FOR SOME OF THE STRONGER WINDS ALOFT TO MIX DOWN. GUSTS COULD BE EVEN HIGHER...BUT UNCERTAINTY EXIST ON HOW MUCH OF THE WINDS WILL MIX DOWN. ON TUESDAY...GUSTY WEST/SW WINDS EXPECTED ON TUESDAY. GUSTS TO 30 TO 35 KNOTS CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TUESDAY MORNING AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MVFR CIGS WILL DROP SOUTHWARD INTO NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN DURING THE DAY TUESDAY. THERE IS CHANCE OF SHOWERS ACROSS THE NORTH. && .MARINE...GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING. LATER TONIGHT...SOME CONCERN THAT THERE WILL BE A PERIOD OF GUSTY WINDS BETWEEN 1 AM AND 5 AM. THERE COULD BE A BRIEF PERIOD OF WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 20 KNOTS. WINDY CONDITIONS WILL DEVELOP LATE TUESDAY MORNING AND CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY EVENING. GUSTS TO AROUND 30 KNOTS ARE EXPECTED. A SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED LATER THIS EVENING OR ON THE MIDNIGHT SHIFT. && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && ECKBERG/KIECKBUSCH
Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 316 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-292030- 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- 316 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 308 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED LATE TUESDAY MORNING AND TUESDAY AFTERNOON. MUCH COOLER AIR WILL ARRIVE DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. FROST IS POSSIBLE IN NORTH CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY NEXT WEEK. IT IS TOO EARLY TO DETERMINE IF THESE STORMS WOULD BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL BE NEEDED THROUGH EARLY EVENING. LMZ521-522-541>543-292030- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 316 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 8 PM. SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THAT WILL CREATE A SERIOUS HAZARD FOR MARINERS. GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WEST WINDS WILL CREATE A HAZARD TO SMALL CRAFT ON LATER TUESDAY MORNING AND THEN CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY EVENING. ECKBERG
In the hours before
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</html>Local storm report, May 28, 3:43 PM CDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
343 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0325 PM HAIL TIGERTON 44.73N 89.05W
05/28/2012 M1.25 INCH SHAWANO WI PUBLIC
REPORTED RELAYED BY WSAW TV IN WAUSAU.
&&
ECKBERGLocal storm report, May 28, 4:05 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI
405 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0348 PM TSTM WND DMG 4 NW SHAWANO 44.82N 88.65W
05/28/2012 SHAWANO WI LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
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ECKBERGSpecial weather statement, May 28, 4:08 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 408 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 WIZ013-073-282130- NORTHERN MARINETTE COUNTY-SOUTHERN MARINETTE COUNTY- 408 PM CDT MON MAY 28 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL MARINETTE COUNTY... AT 401 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WAUSAUKEE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WILL AFFECT WAUSAUKE AND RURAL AREAS IN EAST CENTRAL MARINETTE COUNTY THROUGH 430 PM CDT. GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL BRANCHES TO BE BLOWN DOWN...AND LOOSE OBJECTS TO BLOW AROUND. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette, Menominee, Oconto | 53 min |
| May 28, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Shawano, Waupaca | 35 min |
| May 28, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Menominee, Oconto, Shawano | 35 min |
| May 28, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 60 min | |
| May 28, 4:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca | 28 min |
| May 28, 4:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Portage, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago | 51 min |
| May 28, 4:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Marinette | 10 min |
| May 28, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Outagamie, Waupaca | 21 min |
| May 28, 5:31 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 59 min | |
| May 28, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Door | 32 min |
| May 28, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRB | Manitowoc | 26 min |
| May 28, 6:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | GRB | 95 min |
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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.