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Wind Advisory 8, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this wind advisory at Oct 30, 2012, 3:17 AM CDT for 5 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Oct 30, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 30, 2012, 3:17 AM CDT (08:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 30, 2012, 4:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Oct 30, 2012, 3:25 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Kenosha County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 1666 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
051 WWUS73 KMKX 300817 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 317 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS NEAR THE LAKE TODAY... .A TIGHTENING SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE... CENTERED OVER ONTARIO CANADA AND NOSING INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY...AND STRONG LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY TRACKING WESTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA WILL PRODUCE STRONG NORTH WINDS OVER THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. WIZ052-060-066-071-072-301630- /O.NEW.KMKX.WI.Y.0008.121030T0900Z-121031T0000Z/ SHEBOYGAN-OZAUKEE-MILWAUKEE-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHEBOYGAN...PORT WASHINGTON... MILWAUKEE...RACINE...KENOSHA 317 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...EARLY THIS MORNING RIGHT ALONG THE LAKE...PEAKING FROM MID-MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON...THEN SLOWLY DIMINISHING THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH NEAR THE LAKE...WITH GUSTS TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES WITH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ON POWER LINES. DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY ON EAST- WEST ROADS AND FOR HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES. 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. && $$ REM/MRC
2 follow-up statements
655 WWUS73 KMKX 301429 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 929 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...STRONG NORTH WINDS NEAR THE LAKE TODAY... .A TIGHTENING SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN HIGH PRESSURE... CENTERED OVER ONTARIO CANADA AND NOSING INTO THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER VALLEY...AND STRONG LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY TRACKING WESTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN PENNSYLVANIA WILL PRODUCE STRONG NORTH WINDS OVER THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN TODAY. WIZ052-060-066-071-072-302230- /O.CON.KMKX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-121031T0000Z/ SHEBOYGAN-OZAUKEE-MILWAUKEE-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHEBOYGAN...PORT WASHINGTON... MILWAUKEE...RACINE...KENOSHA 929 AM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING. * TIMING...THIS MORNING RIGHT ALONG THE LAKE...PEAKING FROM MID- MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON...THEN SLOWLY DIMINISHING THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON. * WINDS...SUSTAINED NORTH WINDS OF 30 TO 35 MPH NEAR THE LAKE... WITH GUSTS TO BETWEEN 40 AND 45 MPH. * IMPACTS...SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES WITH TREE LIMBS BLOWN DOWN ON POWER LINES. DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY ON EAST-WEST ROADS AND FOR HIGH-PROFILE VEHICLES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF AT LEAST 30 MPH AND/OR WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ DDV
747 WWUS73 KMKX 302025 NPWMKX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 325 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...WINDS NOT MEETING ADVISORY CRITERIA... .THOUGH NORTH WINDS HAVE BEEN QUITE BLUSTERY THROUGH THE DAY...THEY HAVE NOT REACHED WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO EASE A BIT THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...SO THE WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS HAS LIKELY CLOSED. WIZ052-060-066-071-072-302130- /O.CAN.KMKX.WI.Y.0008.000000T0000Z-121031T0000Z/ SHEBOYGAN-OZAUKEE-MILWAUKEE-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHEBOYGAN...PORT WASHINGTON... MILWAUKEE...RACINE...KENOSHA 325 PM CDT TUE OCT 30 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. WINDS REMAIN BELOW WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA...THUS THE ADVISORY IS BEING CANCELLED. $$ DDV
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.