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Special Weather Statement, NWS Green Bay, WI

May 28, 2017Gogebic County, Michigan

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2017, 11:46 AM CDT for Gogebic County, Michigan. It was in force for 44 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 28, 2017, 11:46 AM CDT (16:46 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2017, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

County Gogebic County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 183 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:46 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 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 Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 28, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 6:00 AM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 3:53 AM CDT, 7 hours 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 28, 11:46 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Green Bay WI
1146 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 2017

WIZ005-281730-
Vilas WI-
1146 AM CDT SUN MAY 28 2017

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

At 1143 AM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northwest of Turtle Flambeau Flowage, moving northeast at 35
mph.

Half inch hail and winds in excess of 30 mph will be possible with
this storm.

This storm should reach far northwest Vilas county north of
Winchester around 1215pm.

LAT...LON 4630 8992 4628 8985 4624 8993 4630 8993
TIME...MOT...LOC 1643Z 225DEG 30KT 4616 9028

RDM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 12:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Vilas	40 min
May 28, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Florence, Forest, Langlade	53 min
May 28, 3:01 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRB		28 hr
May 28, 3:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Forest	49 min
May 28, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marinette	41 min
May 28, 4:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Florence	39 min
May 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marinette	25 min
May 28, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Door	78 min
May 28, 6:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Door	38 min

Nearby

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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.