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Winter Weather Advisory 2, NWS Green Bay, WI

January 13, 201418 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 13, 2014, 4:52 AM CST for 18 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jan 14, 2014, 12:00 AM CST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2014, 4:52 AM CST (10:52 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 14, 2014, 12:00 AM CST
Expired: Jan 14, 2014, 9:01 PM CST
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Brown County, WI, Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 380 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1701 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 12, 11:22 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 11:22 PM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 4:52 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	GRB	Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Winnebago	10 hr
Jan 13, 3:02 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	GRB	Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Langlade, Lincoln and 12 more	37 hr
Jan 13, 3:22 PM CST	Small Craft Advisory	GRB		14 hr

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.