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Special Weather Statement, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 7, 2016Columbia County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2016, 11:37 AM CDT for Columbia County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 23 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: Jul 7, 2016, 11:37 AM CDT (16:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 2016, 12:00 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

County Columbia County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:36 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1034 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 7, 10:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 10:25 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 7, 10:31 AM CDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 5:39 AM CDT, 5 hours 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
539 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016

WIZ056-062-067-071200-
SAUK-LAFAYETTE-IOWA-
539 AM CDT THU JUL 7 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT IOWA...WESTERN SAUK AND
LAFAYETTE COUNTIES...

AT 535 AM CDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR CASHTON...TO 13 MILES NORTH OF
BOSCOBEL...TO NEAR PRAIRIE DU CHIEN...TO NEAR CASCADE. MOVEMENT WAS
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS. IN ADDITION....HEAVY RAINFALL MAY BRING ONE HALF TO ONE INCH
OF RAINFALL IN AN HOUR.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REEDSBURG...DODGEVILLE...MINERAL POINT...DARLINGTON...SPRING GREEN...
SHULLSBURG...BELMONT...BENTON...HIGHLAND...PLAIN...RIDGEWAY...
AVOCA...ORION...LINDEN...NEW DIGGINGS...COBB...LA VALLE...LAMONT...
LOGANVILLE AND REWEY.

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

LAT...LON 4320 9043 4321 9030 4317 9019 4355 9019
      4356 9031 4364 9031 4364 8998 4251 8998
      4252 9043
TIME...MOT...LOC 1035Z 233DEG 34KT 4379 9085 4333 9077 4309 9105 4267
9110 4234 9102

WOOD

Special weather statement, Jul 7, 6:48 AM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 7:34 AM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 7, 11:37 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 5:39 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa, Lafayette	81 min
Jul 7, 6:48 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Iowa, Sauk	42 min
Jul 7, 7:34 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Columbia, Marquette	41 min
Jul 7, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Columbia	26 min
Jul 7, 12:32 PM CDT	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	MKX		9 hr
Jul 7, 1:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Fond du Lac	35 min
Jul 7, 2:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Washington	41 min
Jul 7, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Fond du Lac	27 min
Jul 7, 2:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Fond du Lac, Sheboygan	3 hr
Jul 7, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Dodge, Fond du Lac, Sheboygan, Washington	46 min
Jul 7, 2:42 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		63 min
Jul 7, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MKX	Sheboygan	52 min
Jul 7, 3:06 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MKX	Ozaukee, Sheboygan, Washington	3 hr
Jul 7, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MKX		45 min

Nearby

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.