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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 11, 2016, 8:38 PM CST for Vilas County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Jan 11, 2016, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2016, 8:38 PM CST (02:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2016, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2016, 11:15 AM CST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
County Vilas County, WI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 160 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 346 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
- 756 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Jan 11, 8:27 PM CST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 8:27 PM CST, 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 12, 2:53 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee and 16 more | 18 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.