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Wind Chill Watch 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this wind chill watch at Jan 3, 2015, 2:55 PM CST for 9 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jan 4, 2015, 6:00 PM CST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2015, 2:55 PM CST (20:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 4, 2015, 6:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2015, 3:52 AM CST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Portage County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Wood County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 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 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 336 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
- 1030 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 watch 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 watch went out at Jan 3, 2:43 PM CST, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 2:43 PM CST, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 3, 2:54 PM CST, 1 minute before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 254 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-042100- 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- 254 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT HAZARDOUS TRAVEL IS EXPECTED TONIGHT DUE TO FREEZING DRIZZLE AND SNOW. FREEZING DRIZZLE AND LIGHT SNOW WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW FROM NORTHWEST TO SOUTHEAST. A MINOR ICE ACCUMULATION LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH IS POSSIBLE. SNOW AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES ARE EXPECTED NORTH AND WEST OF THE FOX VALLEY WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS ACROSS VILAS COUNTY. SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS ARE LIKELY AGAIN ON SUNDAY WITH SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW EARLY. THE SNOW SHOULD TAPER OFF AT MOST LOCATIONS BUT LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS REMAIN POSSIBLE IN EASTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. COLD TEMPERATURES AND BLUSTERY CONDITIONS MAY PRODUCE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE DANGEROUSLY COLD CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. A WIND CHILL WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHERN AND CENTRAL WISCONSIN WHERE VALUES COULD DROP INTO THE 35 TO 45 BELOW ZERO RANGE. HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS COULD REDEVELOP MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY AS A CLIPPER SYSTEM BRINGS SNOW TO MUCH OF THE AREA. A REINFORCING SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR WILL RESULT IN DANGEROUSLY COLD CONDITIONS TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT WITH ADDITIONAL WIND CHILL HEADLINES POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY. LMZ521-522-541>543-042100- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 254 PM CST SAT JAN 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NORTHWEST WINDS WITH GALE FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NORTHWEST WINDS WITH GALE FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY IS ALSO POSSIBLE. RE/AK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jan 3, 8:55 AM CST, 6 hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 2:55 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 16 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:14 PM CST | Gale Warning | GRB | 24 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.