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Special Weather Statement, NWS Milwaukee, WI

July 13, 2016Marquette County, Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2016, 8:23 PM CDT for Marquette 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: Jul 13, 2016, 8:23 PM CDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2016, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Milwaukee, WI

County Marquette County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1515 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 130 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 8.3

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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 Jul 13, 3:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:53 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 13, 8:07 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:26 PM CDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
226 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

WIZ051-132000-
FOND DU LAC-
226 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN FOND DU LAC
COUNTY...

AT 225 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTH FOND DU
LAC...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOND DU LAC...NORTH FOND DU LAC...OAKFIELD...
SOUTHERN LAKE WINNEBAGO...TAYCHEEDAH...LAMARTINE...BYRON...EDEN...
MOUNT CALVARY...ST. CLOUD...PEEBLES...OAK CENTER...PIPE...MARYTOWN...
WAUCOUSTA...JOHNSBURG...DUNDEE AND CALVARY.

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

LAT...LON 4364 8816 4365 8864 4383 8864 4389 8841
      4390 8840 4394 8826 4394 8816
TIME...MOT...LOC 1925Z 266DEG 33KT 4377 8853

HALBACH

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 2:49 PM CDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
249 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

WIZ052-132030-
SHEBOYGAN-
249 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN SHEBOYGAN COUNTY...

AT 249 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER ST ANNA...OR
10 MILES NORTHWEST OF PLYMOUTH...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HALF INCH HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOWARDS GROVE...ELKHART LAKE AND HAVEN.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4381 8816 4389 8816 4389 8774 4380 8772
TIME...MOT...LOC 1949Z 266DEG 26KT 4388 8808

HALBACH

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 3:17 PM CDT, 5 hours 6 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
317 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

WIZ052-132115-
SHEBOYGAN-
317 PM CDT WED JUL 13 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SHEBOYGAN COUNTY...

AT 317 PM CDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF
PLYMOUTH...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SHEBOYGAN...PLYMOUTH...SHEBOYGAN FALLS...KOHLER...GREENBUSH...
WALDO...GLENBEULAH AND JOHNSONVILLE.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4368 8770 4365 8773 4369 8815 4371 8817
      4381 8816 4380 8772 4376 8770 4374 8771
      4370 8770
TIME...MOT...LOC 2017Z 271DEG 25KT 4375 8812

HALBACH

Local storm report, Jul 13, 3:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 13, 8:23 PM 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 13, 8:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MKX	Sauk	35 min
Jul 14, 2:57 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MKX		17 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.