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Special Weather Statement, NWS Milwaukee, WI

May 25, 2016Green Lake County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this special weather statement at May 25, 2016, 4:29 PM CDT for Green Lake County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 31 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
May 25, 2016, 4:29 PM CDT (21:29 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI

County Green Lake County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 12:00Z on 2016-05-25Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2016-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 82 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
869 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 25, 4:08 PM CDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 4:08 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 3:58 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
358 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-262100-
MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE-
WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE-
LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA-
358 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A LINE OF SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO
CROSS SOUTHERN WISCONSIN INTO THIS EVENING. THERE IS A MARGINAL
RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS..WHICH MEANS THAT AN ISOLATED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE.

IN ADDITION...SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY
RAINFALL IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...RESULTING IN MINOR STREET
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY...AS A
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE REMAINS IN THE AREA...ALONG WITH A
WAVERING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG
TO SEVERE AT SOME POINT.

THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ON THURSDAY.
THIS MEANS THAT AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS EVENING...AND AGAIN ON
THURSDAY.

LMZ643>646-262100-
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-
358 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR
THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN FROM SHEBOYGAN TO PORT
WASHINGTON. PATCHY DENSE FOG MAY DEVELOP AS MORE HUMID AIR FLOWS
ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN. THE DENSE FOG MAY LINGER OR DEVELOP AGAIN
INTO THE OVERNIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. THERE IS A MARGINAL RISK FOR
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM JUST SOUTH OF
SHEBOYGAN TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL. THIS MEANS THAT AN ISOLATED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THE CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH NEXT
TUESDAY...AS LOW PRESSURE REMAINS IN THE AREA...ALONG WITH A
WAVERING FRONTAL BOUNDARY. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG
TO SEVERE AT SOME POINT.

DENSE FOG WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES AS WARM...HUMID AIR LINGERS
OVER LAKE MICHIGAN THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND.

REM
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 25, 3:16 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
316 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

WIZ046-047-057-252100-
GREEN LAKE-COLUMBIA-MARQUETTE-
316 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

...A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL
COLUMBIA... SOUTHWESTERN GREEN LAKE AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES...

AT 315 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF
WESTFIELD...OR 15 MILES NORTH OF PORTAGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
PORTAGE...PARDEEVILLE...MONTELLO...WESTFIELD...LAWRENCE...PACKWAUKEE...
MANCHESTER...OXFORD...ENDEAVOR...NESHKORO...KINGSTON...MARQUETTE...
BRIGGSVILLE...SPRINGFIELD CORNERS...GLEN OAK...HARRISVILLE AND DALTON.

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 4367 8902 4351 8938 4364 8970 4364 8960
      4398 8960 4398 8924
TIME...MOT...LOC 2015Z 224DEG 28KT 4377 8950

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Special weather statement, May 25, 3:44 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 25, 3:53 PM CDT, 36 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
353 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

WIZ046-047-051-057-058-252200-
FOND DU LAC-GREEN LAKE-COLUMBIA-DODGE-MARQUETTE-
353 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN COLUMBIA...GREEN
LAKE...EAST CENTRAL MARQUETTE...NORTHWESTERN DODGE AND WESTERN FOND
DU LAC COUNTIES...

AT 352 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREEN LAKE...OR
10 MILES WEST OF RIPON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND NICKEL SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOND DU LAC...WAUPUN...RIPON...NORTH FOND DU LAC...MARKESAN...PRINCETON...
OAKFIELD...ROSENDALE...GREEN LAKE...BRANDON...LAMARTINE...FOX LAKE...ALTO...
MANCHESTER...FAIRWATER...FRIESLAND...KINGSTON...MARQUETTE...OAK CENTER AND
ASTICO.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

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 4390 8888 4389 8855 4372 8841 4350 8906
      4381 8929 4392 8889
TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 217DEG 50KT 4379 8904

SPM
Local storm report, May 25, 4:03 PM CDT, 26 minutes before
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Local storm report, May 25, 4:29 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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Special weather statement, May 25, 4:29 PM CDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 10:55 AM CDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryMKX8 hr
May 25, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk29 min
May 25, 2:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXSauk18 min
May 25, 2:47 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXDane43 min
May 25, 3:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXMarquette44 min
May 25, 3:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXDane, Jefferson, Rock46 min
May 25, 3:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXFond du Lac, Green Lake67 min
May 25, 4:39 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXDodge51 min
May 25, 4:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXWalworth40 min
May 25, 5:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXWaukesha38 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXGreen Lake29 min
May 25, 5:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXGreen44 min
May 25, 5:40 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXMarquette50 min
May 25, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXMarquette33 min
May 25, 6:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMKXMarquette26 min
May 25, 6:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementMKXGreen Lake46 min
May 25, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMKXGreen Lake32 min

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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.