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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this freeze warning at May 12, 2013, 3:07 AM CDT for 16 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at May 13, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 6 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
- May 12, 2013, 3:07 AM CDT (08:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2013, 1:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- May 13, 2013, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 399 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
- 2340 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at May 11, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 10:17 PM CDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 3:07 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette and 3 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Wisconsin, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013
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.