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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Milwaukee, WI

April 2, 20247 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Milwaukee, WI issued this winter storm warning at Apr 2, 2024, 3:41 AM CDT for 7 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Apr 2, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 2, 2024, 3:41 AM CDT (08:41 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 2, 2024, 1:00 PM CDT
Expired: Apr 3, 2024, 3:17 AM CDT
In force: 14 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, Marquette County, WI, Sauk County, WI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 695 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 76 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 storm warning 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 storm warning went out at Apr 1, 9:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 9:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 1, 9:11 PM CDT, 6 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 1, 9:56 PM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Kenosha	8 hr
Apr 2, 3:41 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	MKX	Columbia, Dane, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Green, Green Lake and 10 more	31 hr
Apr 2, 6:02 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Kenosha	21 days
Apr 2, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Watch	MKX	Green, Rock	11 hr
Apr 2, 2:10 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	MKX	Dodge	21 hr
Apr 2, 2:46 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	MKX	Dane	20 hr
Apr 2, 3:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Waukesha	3 days
Apr 2, 3:43 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	MKX	Racine	48 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.