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Wind Chill Advisory 13, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 26, 2014, 2:05 PM CST for 20 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 27, 2014, 3:00 AM CST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2014, 2:05 PM CST (20:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 27, 2014, 3:00 AM CST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2014, 11:06 AM CST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Kenosha County, WI, Lafayette County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Milwaukee County, WI, Ozaukee County, WI, Racine County, WI, Rock County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI, Walworth County, WI, Washington County, WI, Waukesha County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
139 WWUS43 KMKX 262005 WSWMKX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 205 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 ...BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILLS LATER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING... .AN ARCTIC FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH THIS EVENING USHERING IN A REINFORCING SHOT OF UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR. WITH A BRISK NORTHWEST WIND...EXPECT WIND CHILLS TO DROP TO 20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO LATER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-270415- /O.NEW.KMKX.WC.Y.0013.140227T0900Z-140227T1800Z/ MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN...FOND DU LAC... SHEBOYGAN...BARABOO...PORTAGE...WISCONSIN DELLS...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON...DODGEVILLE...MADISON...JEFFERSON... LAKE MILLS...WAUKESHA...BROOKFIELD...MILWAUKEE...DARLINGTON... MONROE...JANESVILLE...BELOIT...ELKHORN...LAKE GENEVA...RACINE... KENOSHA 205 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY. * TIMING...VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS LATER TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. * WIND CHILL VALUES...20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO. * IMPACTS...EXPOSED SKIN WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROSTBITE WITHIN 30 MINUTES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$ COLLAR
3 follow-up statements
553 WWUS43 KMKX 270255 WSWMKX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 855 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 ...BITTERLY COLD WIND CHILLS LATER TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING... .AN ARCTIC FRONT WILL PASS THROUGH TONIGHT USHERING IN A REINFORCING SHOT OF UNSEASONABLY COLD AIR. WITH A BRISK NORTHWEST WIND...EXPECT WIND CHILLS TO DROP TO 20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-271100- /O.CON.KMKX.WC.Y.0013.140227T0900Z-140227T1800Z/ MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN...FOND DU LAC... SHEBOYGAN...BARABOO...PORTAGE...WISCONSIN DELLS...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON...DODGEVILLE...MADISON...JEFFERSON... LAKE MILLS...WAUKESHA...BROOKFIELD...MILWAUKEE...DARLINGTON... MONROE...JANESVILLE...BELOIT...ELKHORN...LAKE GENEVA...RACINE... KENOSHA 855 PM CST WED FEB 26 2014 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY. * TIMING...VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS LATER TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. * WIND CHILL VALUES...20 TO 30 BELOW ZERO. * IMPACTS...EXPOSED SKIN WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROSTBITE WITHIN 30 MINUTES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$ HENTZ
874 WWUS43 KMKX 270921 WSWMKX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 321 AM CST THU FEB 27 2014 ...VERY COLD WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING... .BRISK NORTHWEST WINDS CONTINUE TO BRING ARCTIC AIR INTO THE REGION THIS MORNING. WIND CHILL TEMPERATURES WILL DROP TO 15 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO FOR MUCH OF THIS MORNING. THEY WILL IMPROVE DURING THE AFTERNOON DUE TO DECREASING WINDS AND GRADUALLY WARMING TEMPERATURES. WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-271730- /O.CON.KMKX.WC.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-140227T1800Z/ MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN...FOND DU LAC... SHEBOYGAN...BARABOO...PORTAGE...WISCONSIN DELLS...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON...DODGEVILLE...MADISON...JEFFERSON... LAKE MILLS...WAUKESHA...BROOKFIELD...MILWAUKEE...DARLINGTON... MONROE...JANESVILLE...BELOIT...ELKHORN...LAKE GENEVA...RACINE... KENOSHA 321 AM CST THU FEB 27 2014 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON CST TODAY. * TIMING...VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS THIS MORNING. * WIND CHILL VALUES...15 BELOW TO 25 BELOW ZERO. * IMPACTS...EXPOSED SKIN WILL BE SUSCEPTIBLE TO FROSTBITE WITHIN 30 MINUTES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND CHILL ADVISORY MEANS THAT VERY COLD AIR AND STRONG WINDS WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE LOW WIND CHILLS. THIS WILL RESULT IN FROST BITE AND LEAD TO HYPOTHERMIA IF PRECAUTIONS ARE NOT TAKEN. IF YOU MUST VENTURE OUTDOORS...MAKE SURE YOU WEAR A HAT AND GLOVES. && $$ MG
907 WWUS43 KMKX 271706 WSWMKX URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 1106 AM CST THU FEB 27 2014 ...WIND CHILLS HAVE EASED A BIT... .WHILE STILL BITTERLY COLD...THE WIND CHILLS HAVE MODIFIED ABOVE 20 BELOW ZERO...THUS THE ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-271815- /O.CAN.KMKX.WC.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-140227T1800Z/ MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MONTELLO...BERLIN...FOND DU LAC... SHEBOYGAN...BARABOO...PORTAGE...WISCONSIN DELLS...BEAVER DAM... WEST BEND...PORT WASHINGTON...DODGEVILLE...MADISON...JEFFERSON... LAKE MILLS...WAUKESHA...BROOKFIELD...MILWAUKEE...DARLINGTON... MONROE...JANESVILLE...BELOIT...ELKHORN...LAKE GENEVA...RACINE... KENOSHA 1106 AM CST THU FEB 27 2014 ...WIND CHILL ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS CANCELLED THE WIND CHILL ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COLD THIS AFTERNOON...MOSTLY IN THE SINGLE DIGITS...BUT NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO EASE. WIND CHILLS WILL MODIFY FROM THE TEENS BELOW ZERO TO THE SINGLE DIGITS BELOW ZERO AS THE AFTERNOON WEARS ON. $$ COLLAR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 2:27 PM CST | Gale Warning | MKX | 22 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.