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Special Weather Statement, NWS Milwaukee, WI

March 31, 2016Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2016, 11:53 AM CDT for Dodge County, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2016, 11:53 AM CDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2016, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 290 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: 218 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 31, 3:16 AM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 3:16 AM CDT, 8 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 31, 11:35 AM CDT, 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1135 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-010830-
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE-
WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE-
LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA-
1135 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL
WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. NO
SEVERE WEATHER IS ANTICIPATED.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

SOME RIVERS MAY APPROACH FLOOD STAGE DUE TO THE RECENT RAINFALL.

STRONG WINDS WILL APPROACH WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THURSDAY.

LMZ643>646-010830-
SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI-
PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI-
NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI-
WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL-
1135 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...REST OF TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. NORTHERLY
WIND GUSTS WILL APPROACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY LEVELS IN THE WAKE OF
A COLD FRONT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

A GALE WARNING MAY BE NEEDED SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING FOR
BRISK WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS.

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 31, 11:31 AM CDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 11:53 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
1153 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

WIZ047-051-057-058-311730-
FOND DU LAC-GREEN LAKE-COLUMBIA-DODGE-
1153 AM CDT THU MAR 31 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN
COLUMBIA...SOUTHEASTERN GREEN LAKE...NORTHERN DODGE AND FOND DU LAC
COUNTIES...

AT 1152 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED ALONG
A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR FALL RIVER TO NEAR HORICON. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOND DU LAC...BEAVER DAM...WAUPUN...RIPON...MAYVILLE...NORTH FOND DU LAC...
HORICON...JUNEAU...LOMIRA...FALL RIVER...OAKFIELD...ROSENDALE...BRANDON...
BURNETT...TAYCHEEDAH...LAMARTINE...BYRON...FOX LAKE...ALTO AND EDEN.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

LAT...LON 4384 8816 4341 8864 4336 8919 4390 8879
      4389 8841 4394 8840 4394 8816
TIME...MOT...LOC 1652Z 222DEG 62KT 4342 8904 4345 8868

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 10:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dane	32 min
Mar 31, 11:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Milwaukee	26 min
Mar 31, 11:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Dodge	29 min
Mar 31, 12:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Milwaukee	27 min
Mar 31, 12:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Walworth	44 min
Mar 31, 12:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Kenosha, Racine	49 min
Mar 31, 4:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	32 hr

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Special Weather Statements in Wisconsin, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.