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Flood Watch 3, NWS Green Bay, WI

July 23, 20255 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this flood watch at Jul 23, 2025, 2:10 PM CDT for 5 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Jul 23, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2025, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 23, 2025, 4:00 PM CDT
Expired: Jul 24, 2025, 1:14 AM CDT
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI
Flood severity: None

Counties Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Vilas County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 199 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 23, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 12:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 14 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
Jul 22, 7:54 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRB		32 hr
Jul 22, 7:58 PM CDT	Beach Hazards Statement	GRB	Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc	32 hr
Jul 23, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Lincoln	45 min
Jul 23, 3:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Lincoln, Marathon	38 min
Jul 23, 3:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	32 min
Jul 23, 4:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Marathon	20 min
Jul 23, 4:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Forest, Langlade	47 min
Jul 23, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	43 min
Jul 23, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Langlade, Marathon, Menominee, Shawano	48 min
Jul 23, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Marathon	47 min
Jul 23, 5:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRB	Marathon	3 hr
Jul 23, 5:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marathon, Menominee, Oconto, Shawano	43 min
Jul 23, 5:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Outagamie, Waupaca	31 min
Jul 23, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Menominee, Oconto, Shawano	29 min
Jul 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		83 min
Jul 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette, Menominee, Oconto, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca	38 min
Jul 23, 5:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	GRB	Oconto	34 min
Jul 23, 5:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Outagamie, Shawano	46 min
Jul 23, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Marinette	30 min
Jul 23, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Door	64 min
Jul 23, 6:29 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		91 min
Jul 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRB	Brown, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Outagamie	38 min
Jul 23, 6:58 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	GRB		30 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.