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Flood Watch 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 10, 20209 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flood watch at Jul 10, 2020, 4:20 AM CDT for 9 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2020, 4:20 AM CDT (09:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2020, 6:52 AM CDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Green Bay, WI
Flood severity
None

Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Winnebago County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:20 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 9 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2020-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2020-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jul 9, 3:13 PM CDT, 13 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 3:13 PM CDT, 13 hours 7 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 8:24 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGRBLanglade, Marathon36 min
Jul 9, 9:56 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGRBForest, Langlade34 min
Jul 10, 1:38 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGRBOutagamie, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago3 hr
Jul 10, 3:06 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementGRBBrown, Calumet, Outagamie54 min
Jul 10, 3:34 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGRBBrown, Calumet, Manitowoc, Outagamie, Winnebago3 hr
Jul 10, 6:07 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryGRBBrown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc114 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Wisconsin, 2020Every flood watch in 2020

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.