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Winter Weather Advisory 6, NWS Milwaukee, WI

January 29, 202110 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 29, 2021, 2:28 PM CST for 10 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jan 30, 2021, 3:00 PM CST. It was in force for 21 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 29, 2021, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 30, 2021, 3:00 PM CST
Expired
Jan 31, 2021, 12:14 PM CST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Milwaukee, WI

Counties Columbia County, WI, Dane County, WI, Dodge County, WI, Fond du Lac County, WI, Green Lake County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Jefferson County, WI, Marquette County, WI, Sauk County, WI, Sheboygan County, WI

The radar

The Milwaukee radar (KMKX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:32 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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 12:00Z on 2021-01-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2021-01-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 29, 9:55 AM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 29, 9:55 AM CST, 4 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 29, 2:28 AM CSTSmall Craft AdvisoryMKX40 hr
Jan 29, 3:02 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchMKXGreen, Kenosha, Lafayette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and 4 more11 hr
Jan 29, 2:28 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningMKXGreen, Kenosha, Lafayette, Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine and 5 more52 hr
Jan 29, 2:42 PM CSTGale WarningMKX42 hr

Nearby

Winter Weather Advisories in Wisconsin, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021

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.