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Special Weather Statement, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 18, 2017Lincoln County, Marathon County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this special weather statement at Jul 18, 2017, 10:55 AM CDT for Lincoln County, Marathon County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 35 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 18, 2017, 10:55 AM CDT (15:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 2017, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 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 Jul 18, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 6:45 AM CDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 3:38 AM CDT, 7 hours 17 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 18, 10:55 AM CDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 11:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	60 min
Jul 18, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Portage, Wood	93 min
Jul 18, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Langlade, Menominee, Shawano	75 min
Jul 18, 12:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Vilas	71 min
Jul 18, 1:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Florence, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto	40 min
Jul 18, 3:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Wood	76 min
Jul 18, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee and 5 more	69 min
Jul 18, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Shawano	77 min
Jul 18, 5:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Florence, Langlade, Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, Outagamie and 6 more	90 min
Jul 18, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	43 min
Jul 18, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		85 min
Jul 18, 5:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Outagamie	45 min
Jul 18, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie	28 min
Jul 18, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		54 min
Jul 18, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marinette	39 min
Jul 18, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Calumet, Winnebago	57 min
Jul 18, 6:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Door	55 min
Jul 18, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		83 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.