Alert archive / Wisconsin / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this wind advisory at Mar 10, 2012, 9:16 AM CST for 5 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 10, 2012, 9:16 AM CST (15:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2012, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Washington County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:19 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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 825 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
361 WWUS73 KMKX 101516 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 916 AM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS TODAY... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THIS WILL RESULT IN STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH THE DAYTIME HOURS TODAY. THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS A BIT AND DAYTIME MIXING IS LOST. WIZ051-052-058>060-102330- /O.NEW.KMKX.WI.Y.0003.120310T1516Z-120311T0000Z/ FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-DODGE-WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FOND DU LAC...SHEBOYGAN...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON 916 AM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THIS MORNING UNTIL EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL EXPERIENCE BUFFETING WHILE DRIVING ON EAST-WEST ORIENTATED ROADS. LOOSE ITEMS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND GARBAGE CANS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DDV
2 follow-up statements
896 WWUS73 KMKX 102044 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 244 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON... .A TIGHT PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS WISCONSIN WILL ALLOW FOR CONTINUED STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE OVER EAST CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE...WHERE GUSTS AS HIGH AS 47 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED. THE WINDS WILL DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS A BIT AND DAYTIME MIXING IS LOST. WIZ051-052-058>060-110000- /O.CON.KMKX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120311T0000Z/ FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-DODGE-WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FOND DU LAC...SHEBOYGAN...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON 244 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM CST THIS EVENING. * TIMING...UNTIL EARLY EVENING. * WINDS...SOUTHWEST AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS AS HIGH AS 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES WILL EXPERIENCE BUFFETING WHILE DRIVING ON EAST-WEST ORIENTATED ROADS. LOOSE ITEMS SUCH AS LAWN FURNITURE AND GARBAGE CANS MAY BE BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DDV
237 WWUS73 KMKX 110005 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 604 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...SOUTHWEST WINDS DIMINISHING... .WITH THE ONSET OF MORE STABLE CONDITIONS WILL THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...THE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. WIZ051-052-058>060-110115- /O.EXP.KMKX.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-120311T0000Z/ FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-DODGE-WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FOND DU LAC...SHEBOYGAN...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON 604 PM CST SAT MAR 10 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WITH THE ONSET OF MORE STABLE CONDITIONS WILL THE LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...THE WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. HOWEVER WINDS MAY STILL GUST TO 25 TO 30 MPH DURING THE EARLY EVENING...ESPECIALLY IN HIGHER TERRAIN. $$ HENTZ
Nearby
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.