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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Green Bay, WI

January 7, 20165 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 7, 2016, 8:42 PM CST for 5 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 7, 2016, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
Expired
Jan 8, 2016, 12:00 AM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Portage County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:42 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2016-01-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2016-01-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
736 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
208 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 11:49 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryGRBBrown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Marinette, Menominee and 8 more11 hr
Jan 8, 2:59 PM CSTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryGRB8 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.