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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Green Bay, WI

March 28, 202515 counties in Wisconsin

NWS Green Bay, WI issued this winter storm warning at Mar 28, 2025, 1:51 PM CDT for 15 counties in Wisconsin. It took effect at Mar 29, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT. It was in force for 35 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: Mar 28, 2025, 1:51 PM CDT (18:51 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 29, 2025, 5:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 31, 2025, 4:00 AM CDT
In force: 35 hr
Issued by: NWS Green Bay, WI

Counties Door County, WI, Florence County, WI, Forest County, WI, Langlade County, WI, Lincoln County, WI, Marathon County, WI, Marinette County, WI, Menominee County, WI, Oconto County, WI, Oneida County, WI, Portage County, WI, Shawano County, WI, Vilas County, WI, Waupaca County, WI, Wood County, WI

The radar

The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 367 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: 790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 441 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 Green Bay, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Mar 28, 12:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 12:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 50 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
Mar 28, 2:52 AM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	GRB	Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon, Marinette and 5 more	24 hr
Mar 28, 4:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	GRB	Waushara	53 min
Mar 28, 9:55 AM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRB		3 days
Mar 28, 1:51 PM CDT	Ice Storm Warning	GRB	Door, Florence, Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Marathon and 8 more	52 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.