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Beach Hazards Statement 9, NWS Green Bay, WI
NWS Green Bay, WI issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 19, 2026, 2:10 PM CDT for Door County, Kewaunee County, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. It took effect at Jul 20, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2026, 2:10 PM CDT (19:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 20, 2026, 10:00 AM CDT
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2026, 3:29 AM CDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Green Bay, WI
Counties Door County, WI, Kewaunee County, WI, Manitowoc County, WI
The radar
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256 WHUS43 KGRB 191910 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 210 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 WIZ022-040-050-200315- /O.NEW.KGRB.BH.S.0009.260720T1500Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 210 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...From Monday morning through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
7 follow-up statements
917 WHUS43 KGRB 200309 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 1009 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 WIZ022-040-050-201100- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.260720T1500Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 1009 PM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CDT MONDAY THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...From 10 AM CDT Monday through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$ JLA
611 WHUS43 KGRB 200912 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 412 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 WIZ022-040-050-201715- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.260720T1500Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 412 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 10 AM CDT THIS MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...From 10 AM CDT this morning through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
942 WHUS43 KGRB 201514 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 1014 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 WIZ022-040-050-202315- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.000000T0000Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 1014 AM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...From 10 AM CDT this morning through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
743 WHUS43 KGRB 202044 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 344 PM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 WIZ022-040-050-210445- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.000000T0000Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 344 PM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
680 WHUS43 KGRB 210419 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 1119 PM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 WIZ022-040-050-211200- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.000000T0000Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 1119 PM CDT Mon Jul 20 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT TUESDAY... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
284 WHUS43 KGRB 210650 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 150 AM CDT Tue Jul 21 2026 WIZ022-040-050-211200- /O.CON.KGRB.BH.S.0009.000000T0000Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 150 AM CDT Tue Jul 21 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM CDT THIS MORNING... * WHAT...High waves and dangerous currents expected. * WHERE...Beaches along Lake Michigan in Door, Kewaunee and Manitowoc Counties. * WHEN...Through Tuesday morning. * IMPACTS...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected. Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Several beaches that will be most susceptible to the dangerous swimming conditions include... Rock Island State Beach, Baileys Harbor beaches and Whitefish Dunes Beach in Door County. Cresent Beach and City of Kewaunee Beach in Kewaunee County. Point Beach, Neshotah Beach and Red Arrow Beach in Manitowoc County. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$ mpc
339 WHUS43 KGRB 210829 CFWGRB Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Green Bay WI 329 AM CDT Tue Jul 21 2026 WIZ022-040-050-210930- /O.CAN.KGRB.BH.S.0009.000000T0000Z-260721T1200Z/ Door-Kewaunee-Manitowoc- 329 AM CDT Tue Jul 21 2026 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... Waves have diminished and no longer pose a risk of rip currents. $$ MPC
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this beach hazards 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 beach hazards statement went out at Jul 19, 11:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
- A plume of wildfire smoke will continue to cycle over the region this today. Degraded air quality and visibility are expected at times. Additional bouts of smoke are possible during the middle of this week.
- Multiple rounds of thunderstorms are likely (60-80%) to impact the region Monday into Monday night. There is a level 3 out of 5 severe thunderstorm risk Monday afternoon/evening.
- Dense marine smoke is expected to continue at times into Monday. Craft Advisory likely Monday afternoon into Monday night.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 11:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Green Bay WI 1130 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 Updated aviation portion for 18Z TAF issuance .KEY MESSAGES... - A plume of wildfire smoke will continue to cycle over the region this today. Degraded air quality and visibility are expected at times. Additional bouts of smoke are possible during the middle of this week. - Multiple rounds of thunderstorms are likely (60-80%) to impact the region Monday into Monday night. There is a level 3 out of 5 severe thunderstorm risk Monday afternoon/evening. - Dense marine smoke is expected to continue at times into Monday. Craft Advisory likely Monday afternoon into Monday night. && .DISCUSSION... Issued at 250 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 Thunderstorm/Precip Chances: Dry conditions will prevail for much of today with upper ridging over the region. CAM ensembles do show a low-end (15-30%) chance for scattered showers north of HWY 8 late this evening and overnight, however, the bulk of this activity is expected to stay in the UP and over Lake Superior. Monday continues to be the main focus for thunderstorms over the next week. The overlap of a seasonally strong upper jet/vort max and strong instability will set the stage for a potentially significant severe weather event if conditions ultimately align. However, even with the supportive synoptic environment there is a high level of uncertainty with how this event may ultimately unfold. Digging into more details with Monday's event the first question mark of the day will be how morning convection plays out within the WAA regime ahead of the main wave. CAMs are in generally good agreement that multiple clusters of storms will develop well west and north of the forecast area Sunday night with one or two of these clusters possibly following an instability gradient/LLJ into north-central WI Monday morning. These storms will likely be on a downward trend by this time as they will be encountering drier more stable air, in part due to the lingering presence of wildfire smoke shrouding the forecast area. However, with elongated hodographs can't entirely rule a marginal risk for severe hail or damaging winds as these storms move east through the morning. Following the departure of any morning convection attention will turn to how quickly modified areas can recover instability as well as focusing in on any outflow/differential heating boundaries due to debris clouds that could serve as a focus for later rounds of storms. Into the afternoon the main upper wave is progged to be dropping over the MN Arrowhead with the surface front becoming orientate from northeast MN to northeast SD. Ahead of these features CAMs show a rapidly destabilizing warm sector as dew points surge into the upper 60s to low 70s and middle level lapse rates steepen. Some CAMs show initial discrete supercells developing in this warm sector across western and central WI during the mid afternoon. If these storms can maintain a discrete nature for a time that is when the tornado and large hail threat would be maximized. However, the window for discrete cells may be limited to just a few hours as the progressive nature of the front as long with likely splitting cells and storms interactions favors quick upscale growth into one or move MCS/QLCS structures with embedded bowing segments becoming the focus for damaging winds swaths and spin up type tornados. This threat looks like it will persist all to the way to the lakeshore, however, CAMs do generally show lower instability further east so while storms may remain severe some downward trend with eastward extent is possible. In general the severe threat looks to be moving out of the forecast area by midnight Monday. Behind this front, drier weather is expected for mid-week as high pressure builds in with gusty northerly winds on Tuesday. Next chance for showers and storms looks to arrive late Thursday into Friday. Smoke Trends: The current round of smoke will stick around through today with continued impacts of air quality and visibility (less than 3 miles at times). An Air Quality Advisory is in effect statewide through noon Monday. Additional plumes of smoke may impact the region Tuesday into Wednesday, as flow turns back to the north/northwest behind a frontal boundary. A little tough to forecast the smoke that far out, as fire behavior will determine just how much smoke there is to spread into the region. Temp Trends: Despite the smoke, seasonably warm temperatures are expected to continue today under surface high pressure, with less humid conditions. A day of humid conditions is expected ahead of the front on Monday, then more pleasant conditions return mid-week as stronger cold advection will occur behind the frontal passage, with near to below average temps for at least a day or two. && .AVIATION...for 18Z TAF Issuance Issued at 1108 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 At KOSH...high pressure across eastern Wisconsin as resulted in poor mixing this morning, thus slower improvement in visibilities. Visibilities should slowly improve this afternoon up to 3 to 4 miles by late afternoon. Watching cumulus field to the east of the airfield which was moving westward, but was struggling to maintain a broken deck. Have included a tempo group for MVFR CIGS between 2,500-3,000 feet until 21z. Otherwise, areas of smoke will continue tonight with visibilities between four and six miles. On Monday, the first cluster of showers and thunderstorms will approach the site between 16z-18z Monday. Currently have a PROB30 group for this event as the showers and storms will be on the weakening trend, and it is possible the showers and storms could dissipate or move just south of the airport. Also, the weakening showers may also produce gusty winds from the northwest for an hour Monday morning, which is not in the 18z TAF. Later Monday afternoon into the evening, will need to watch round of strong or severe storms across northeast WI. These storms have the capability of producing a high end wind event with gusts of 60+ knots along with large hail and torrential rainfall. For the rest of northeast WI, smoke will continue to gradually improve through the afternoon and tonight. Some patchy MVFR CIGS will likely rise into the VFR category this afternoon. The first round of showers and storms will move into central and north-central WI after 13z, then continue to move southeast and weaken through the late morning. Some stronger storms with hail and gusty winds are possible in north-central and central WI. Meanwhile, later Monday afternoon and evening, a round of strong or severe storms is expected with large hail, a high end wind event of gusts of 60+ knots and heavy rainfall. && .MARINE... Issued at 250 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 South to southwest winds will increase tonight into Monday, with gusts to 30 kts likely Monday afternoon. Waves on Lake Michigan will build to 4-7 ft on Monday, and to 2-4 ft on the bay. A Small Craft will likely (80-90%) be needed Monday afternoon into Monday night. Wildfire smoke will also continue to impact Green Bay and Lake Michigan through least Monday morning, dropping visibilities to around 1NM at times. Some smoke models want to nudge the thicker smoke just west of the waters, but with the marine inversion in place, the smoke will likely get trapped. Have extended the Marine Dense Smoke Advisory through noon Monday. && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... None. && DISCUSSION.....GK AVIATION.......Eckberg MARINE.........GK
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 2:55 AM CDT, 11 hours 15 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Green Bay WI 255 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-200800- Vilas-Oneida-Forest-Florence-Northern Marinette County-Lincoln- Langlade-Menominee-Northern Oconto County-Door-Marathon-Shawano- Wood-Portage-Waupaca-Outagamie-Brown-Kewaunee-Waushara-Winnebago- Calumet-Manitowoc-Southern Marinette County- Southern Oconto County- 255 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for north-central and northeast Wisconsin. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight High concentrations of wildfire smoke will impact visibility and air quality today. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Wildfire smoke will continue to impact visibility and air quality Monday morning. Thunderstorms are possible early Monday, then a round of storms is likely Monday afternoon into Monday night, where there is a level 3 of 5 risk of severe storms with all severe weather hazards possible. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed today or tonight. LMZ521-522-541>543-200800- The Bay of Green Bay south of a line from Cedar River MI to Rock Island Passage-Lake Michigan from Washington Island to Sheboygan- 255 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northwest Lake Michigan and the waters of Green Bay. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Wildfire smoke will lead to visibility reductions, potentially under 1 mile at times. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday Conditions hazardous to small craft are likely Monday into Monday night. Wildfire smoke will lead to visibility reductions, potentially under 1 mile at times Monday and possibly at times later in the week. There is a chance of thunderstorms Monday and Monday night that would pose a hazard to mariners. GK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Green Bay, WI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:09 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRB | 62 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.