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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Milwaukee, WI
NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this freezing rain advisory at Feb 6, 2017, 2:10 PM CST for 6 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Feb 6, 2017, 9:00 PM CST. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2017, 2:10 PM CST (20:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 6, 2017, 9:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2017, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Milwaukee, WI
Counties Columbia County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI
The radar
The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 389 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 358 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freezing rain advisory 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Feb 6, 9:44 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 9:44 AM CST, 4 hours 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Milwaukee, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 3:26 PM CST | Small Craft Advisory | MKX | 35 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.