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Special Weather Statement, NWS Green Bay, WI

October 24, 2023Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this special weather statement at Oct 24, 2023, 3:13 AM CDT for Portage County, Wood County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 32 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: Oct 24, 2023, 3:13 AM CDT (08:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 24, 2023, 3:45 AM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Hail: 0.50 in
Wind: 30

Counties Portage County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The La Crosse radar (KARX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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: 1094 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 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 Oct 24, 2:39 AM CDT, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 24, 2:39 AM CDT, 34 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 23, 8:45 PM CDT, 6 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 24, 3:13 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
Oct 24, 3:50 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Portage, Waupaca	55 min
Oct 24, 5:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Brown, Kewaunee	37 min
Oct 24, 6:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Waushara	59 min
Oct 24, 7:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Calumet, Manitowoc, Winnebago	59 min
Oct 24, 9:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	64 min
Oct 24, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Portage, Wood	62 min
Oct 24, 9:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln, Marathon	53 min
Oct 24, 10:08 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Shawano	22 min
Oct 24, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		14 min
Oct 24, 10:46 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Shawano	29 min
Oct 24, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	38 min
Oct 24, 11:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon	23 min
Oct 24, 11:14 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Shawano	46 min
Oct 24, 12:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Oconto	51 min
Oct 24, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano	31 min
Oct 24, 1:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Shawano	7 min
Oct 24, 1:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Oconto	36 min
Oct 24, 1:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Menominee, Oconto	29 min
Oct 24, 1:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Lincoln, Oneida	39 min
Oct 24, 1:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Oneida, Vilas	36 min
Oct 24, 2:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marinette	23 min
Oct 24, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Lincoln	34 min
Oct 24, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	18 min
Oct 24, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Langlade, Marinette	48 min
Oct 24, 3:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Door	25 min
Oct 24, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	35 min
Oct 24, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Door	26 min
Oct 24, 5:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRB	Marathon	12 hr
Oct 24, 5:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Langlade	46 min
Oct 24, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Menominee, Oconto, Portage, Shawano, Waupaca, Wood	54 min
Oct 24, 6:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRB	Portage, Wood	10 hr

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.