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Snow Squall Warning 1, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this snow squall warning at Dec 4, 2024, 3:05 PM CST for 11 counties in Wisconsin. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 4, 2024, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 4, 2024, 3:45 PM CST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Brown County, WI, Calumet County, WI, Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Outagamie County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Waushara County, WI, Winnebago County, WI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Dec 4, 11:50 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 11:50 AM CST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Dec 4, 9:17 AM CST, 5 hours 48 minutes before
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Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Green Bay WI 1224 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 WIZ022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-042230- Door-Marathon-Shawano-Wood-Portage-Waupaca-Outagamie-Brown- Kewaunee-Waushara-Winnebago-Calumet-Manitowoc- 1224 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE BRIEF, HEAVIER BURSTS... Light snow is expected across central and east-central Wisconsin this afternoon. Embedded within the lighter snow, conditions are favorable for some brief, heavy snow showers. This could result in a rapid increase in snow intensity, lowered visibility to half a mile or less, and wind gusts up to 40 mph and blowing snow. If driving, be alert for sudden changes in road conditions and exercise winter driving precautions. Any heavy snow showers would last 30 to 60 minutes and then depart. WIZ010>013-018>021-073-074-042230- Oneida-Forest-Florence-Northern Marinette County-Lincoln-Langlade- Menominee-Northern Oconto County-Southern Marinette County- Southern Oconto County- 1224 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...LIGHT SNOW SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE BRIEF, HEAVIER BURSTS... Light snow is expected across northern Wisconsin this afternoon. Embedded within the lighter snow, conditions are favorable for some brief, heavy snow showers. This could result in a rapid increase in snow intensity, lowered visibility to 1 mile or less, and wind gusts up to 35 mph and blowing snow. If driving, be alert for sudden changes in road conditions and exercise winter driving precautions. Any heavy snow showers would last 30 to 60 minutes and then depart. WIZ005-042230- Vilas- 1224 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...INCREASING SNOW INTENSITY... Snow will continue across Vilas County from now through Thursday morning, becoming heaviest this evening and overnight due to lake effect from Lake Superior. Most places will get 3 to 5 inches of snow, with as much as 8 to 9 inches in far northwest Vilas County. Roads will become snow-covered and slippery, and strong winds will result in blowing snow and lowered visibility to 1 mile or less at times. Exercise winter driving precautions. KLJ
Special weather statement, Dec 4, 2:44 PM CST, 21 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Green Bay WI 244 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 WIZ013-020>022-031-037>040-045-048>050-073-074-042345- Northern Marinette County-Menominee-Northern Oconto County-Door- Shawano-Waupaca-Outagamie-Brown-Kewaunee-Waushara-Winnebago- Calumet-Manitowoc-Southern Marinette County- Southern Oconto County- 244 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...REMAIN ALERT FOR BRIEF, HEAVIER BURSTS OF SNOW... Conditions are favorable for brief, heavy snow showers over the next 2 the 3 hours. These showers are embedded within a broader area of light snow. These heavy snow showers could result in a rapid increase in snow intensity, lowered visibility to a quarter mile or less, and wind gusts up to 40 mph and blowing snow. If driving, be alert for sudden changes in road conditions and exercise winter driving precautions. Any heavy snow showers would last about 15 to 45 minutes and then depart. WIZ010>012-018-019-030-035-036-042345- Oneida-Forest-Florence-Lincoln-Langlade-Marathon-Wood-Portage- 244 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...REMAIN ALERT FOR BRIEF, HEAVIER BURSTS OF SNOW AND LOCALIZED BLOWING SNOW... Conditions are favorable for brief, heavy snow showers over the next 1 to 3 hours. These showers are embedded within a broader area of light snow. These heavy snow showers could result in a rapid increase in snow intensity, lowered visibility to a half mile or less, and wind gusts up to 40 mph and blowing snow. If driving, be alert for sudden changes in road conditions and exercise winter driving precautions. Any heavy snow showers would last about 15 to 45 minutes and then depart. WIZ005-042345- Vilas- 244 PM CST Wed Dec 4 2024 ...INCREASING SNOW INTENSITY... Snow will continue across Vilas County from now through Thursday morning, becoming heaviest this evening and overnight due to lake effect from Lake Superior. Most places will get 3 to 5 inches of snow, with as much as 8 to 9 inches in far northwest Vilas County. Roads will become snow-covered and slippery, and strong winds will result in blowing snow and lowered visibility to 1 mile or less at times. Exercise winter driving precautions. KLJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 4, 2:01 AM CST | Wind Advisory | GRB | Brown, Calumet, Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie and 3 more | 25 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:09 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | GRB | Vilas | 27 hr |
| Dec 4, 4:17 PM CST | Snow Squall Warning | GRB | Door, Kewaunee | 43 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.