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Wind Chill Advisory 14, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 26, 2014, 2:41 PM CST for 16 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 27, 2014, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2014, 2:41 PM CST (20:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2014, 12:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2014, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 12 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 20:45 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 26, 2:38 PM CST, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 26, 2:38 PM CST, 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 238 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR ROUTINE AFTERNOON FORECAST ISSUANCE .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND THURSDAY ISSUED AT 222 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 STRONG SHORT WAVE WITH ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL DROP INTO THE REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. PRIMARY ISSUE WILL BE ISSUANCE OF WIND CHILL HEADLINES IN THE WAKE OF THE ARCTIC FRONT AND BLUSTERY NORTHWEST WINDS IN ITS WAKE. WITH CURRENT CRITERIA AND COORDINATION WITH AREA OFFICES WILL START OUT WITH A WARNING FOR NC WI. PARTS OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN MAY APPROACH OR REACH WARNING FOR A FEW HOURS BUT WILL START OUT WITH AN ADVISORY. REST OF THE REGION WILL HAVE AN ADVISORY AS WELL. WITH THE COLD FRONT PASSAGE STARTING LATE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE NORTHWEST THIRD OF WISCONSIN...AND THEN THIS EVENING FOR THE REST OF THE STATE...CONSIDERED AN ADVISORY FOR THE BLOWING SNOW ALONE. BUT BEST PRESSURE GRADIENT THROUGH 6 PM OVER MINNESOTA...THEN WORKING INTO WISCONSIN LATER THIS EVENING. WILL HANDLE WITH AN SPS AND ALSO PROVIDE A MENTION OF GUSTY WINDS AND BLOWING SNOW IN THE WIND CHILL HEADLINE TONIGHT. ACTUALLY WILL HAVE A PERIOD OF GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. DESPITE LATE FEBRUARY SUN...SOME LOCATIONS WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH ZERO FOR A HIGH ON THURSDAY. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY ISSUED AT 222 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 NEAR RECORD LOWS POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE DRIFTS OVER THE REGION ON THE HEELS OF THE ARCTIC SURGE OF AIR. THE COLD START AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD SUBZERO TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST DAY IN FEBRUARY. RECORD TEMPS WILL LIKELY DEPEND ON RATE OF INCREASE OF CLOUDS WITH THE DEVELOPING WAA PATTERN ALOFT. AS THE H850 BAROCLINIC ZONE SHIFTS NORTHWARD FRIDAY...MODELS PROG AN INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH TO TRACK OVER THE STATE LATE FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. WITH NEARLY 20-1 SNOW RATIOS....THE GEM AND NAM ARE A BIT MORE AGGRESSIVE AND PRODUCING A NEAR ADVISORY TYPE SNOW OVER MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY LATE FRIDAY EVENING. ANOTHER CHANCE OF SNOW POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY WITH THE RRQ OF THE UPPER JET. MODELS DIVERGE ON THE LOCATIONS OF THIS UPPER SUPPORT WITH A FEW SOLUTIONS FURTHER SOUTH. OTHERWISE BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES EXPECTED FOR NEXT WEEK. SOME MINOR PRECIP CHANCES POSSIBLE...BUT OVERALL THE PATTERN APPEARS TO BE IN A CONFLUENT FLOW BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STREAM ENERGY. && .AVIATION...FOR 18Z TAF ISSUANCE ISSUED AT 1125 AM CST WED FEB 26 2014 INCREASING MID LEVEL VFR CIGS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL LOWER TO A PERIOD OF MVFR CIGS AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM TRACKS NORTHEAST OF THE GREAT LAKES REGION THROUGH TONIGHT. THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL DRAG AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT OVER THE REGION STARTING LATE AFTERNOON OVER NORTHWEST WISCONSIN AND THEN THE REST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. A SHORT PERIOD OF IFR CONDITIONS WITH BS/S- POSSIBLE ALONG AND NEAR THIS FRONT. HOWEVER BLUSTERY NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE WAKE OF THE COLD FRONT MAY CONTINUE OVERNIGHT TO PRODUCE AREAS OF MVFR VSBYS DUE TO BLOWING SNOW...ESPECIALLY IN RURAL OPEN AREAS. && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND CHILL ADVISORY FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY FOR WIZ013- 020>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074. WIND CHILL WARNING FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY FOR WIZ005- 010>012-018-019. && SHORT TERM.....TDH LONG TERM......ECKBERG AVIATION.......TDH
Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 26, 4:15 AM CST, 10 hours 26 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 26, 11:24 AM CST, 3 hours 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1124 AM CST WED FEB 26 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-262100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA...STURGEON BAY...WAUSAU... WISCONSIN RAPIDS...STEVENS POINT...APPLETON...GREEN BAY... ALGOMA...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH...CHILTON...TWO RIVERS...CRIVITZ 1124 AM CST WED FEB 26 2014 ...BLUSTERY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH THIS EVENING...THEN MORE BITTERLY COLD ARCTIC AIR TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY... BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES TODAY WILL GET EVEN COLDER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY AS A COLD FRONT USHERS IN A REINFORCING SHOT OF ARCTIC AIR. BLUSTERY SOUTHWEST WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE WIND CHILLS IN THE 10 BELOW TO 20 BELOW ZERO RANGE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GUSTY WINDS WILL ALSO GENERATE SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW OVER CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. AN INTENSE UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE STATE LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. A BAND OF SNOW SHOWERS IS LIKELY TO ACCOMPANY THE DISTURBANCE AND FRONTAL PASSAGE. MOISTURE WILL BE EXTREMELY LIMITED...SO SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN UNDER AN INCH. GUSTY NORTHWEST WINDS IN THE FRONTS WAKE COULD RESULT IN MORE BLOWING AND DRIFTING OF THE SNOW ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA. POOR TRAVEL CONDITIONS COULD DEVELOP IN NORTH-CENTRAL AND FAR NORTHEAST WISCONSIN IN TIME FOR THE AFTERNOON COMMUTE. ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THE SNOW SHOULD ARRIVE JUST AFTER THE COMMUTE...WITH THE POOR TRAVEL CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO OCCUR DURING THE EVENING. A REINFORCED SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR TONIGHT WILL LIKELY REQUIRE MORE WIND CHILL HEADLINES TO BE ISSUED AGAIN FOR THE PERIOD FROM LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. TDH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:41 PM CST | Wind Chill Warning | GRB | Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Oneida, Vilas | 21 hr |
| Feb 26, 3:06 PM CST | Gale Warning | GRB | 19 hr |
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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.