Severe drought (D2) conditions that developed in parts of Lincoln County, Oneida County and Vilas County in November 2012 continued into January 2013.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
Severe drought (D2) conditions that developed in parts of Lincoln County, Oneida County and Vilas County in November 2012 continued into January 2013.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Nov 30, 10:59 PM CST, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 1059 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 UPDATED AVIATION PORTION FOR 06Z TAF ISSUANCE .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT/SATURDAY. A WEAK SHORT WAVE WHICH PRODUCED A LIGHT MIX OF PCPN OVER NORTHEAST WISCONSIN EARLIER TODAY CONTINUES TO SHIFT EAST OF THE REGION TODAY. SAT IMAGERY SHOWS ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY OVER THE NORTHERN PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON AND APPEARS WILL TRACK OVER THE NORTHERN GREAT LAKES REGION LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT AS UPPER HEIGHTS GRADUALLY INCREASE. THIS SHORT WAVE IS ON THE LEADING EDGE OF THE MORE WARN ADVECTION. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTH REMAIN BELOW FREEZING SO WILL CONTINUE WITH THE FREEZING DRIZZLE AND FLURRIES MENTION FOR THE NORTH. DLH REPORTING SOME FZDZ EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE INCREASING INVERSION TONIGHT...ANTICIPATE CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES TO MOVE LITTLE THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING SO WILL CONTINUE FREEZING DRIZZLE MENTION INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. WILL UPDATE THE HWO TO ACCOUNT FOR THE CONTINUED FREEZING DRIZZLE THREAT FOR THE NORTH TONIGHT. MODELS TIMING WITH RAIN DEVELOPING STILL IN QUESTION FOR SATURDAY...BUT STILL ANTICIPATE INCREASING POPS FROM WEST TO EAST AS THE H850 TO SURFACE TROUGH SWINGS OVER THIS WEEKEND. LITTLE CHANGE TO THE GOING FORECAST FOR THIS SECTION. WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD OF THE 850 TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW SHOULD ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO RISE WELL ABOVE THE FREEZING AS THE PCPN INCREASES AND WARMS THE LOWER LAYERS. AGAIN WILL USE A BLEND OF THE 3 HOURLY GUIDANCE NUMBERS BUT WITH THE EXTENSIVE CLOUDS ANTICIPATED. WILL AVOID THE 50 MARK FOR NOW FOR THE FAR SOUTH DUE TO THE CLOUD POTENTIAL. .LONG TERM...SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. FIRST SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY NIGHT. WILL HAVE LIKELY POPS GOING FOR LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE DURING THE EVENING AND THEN CHANCES FOR LIGHT RAIN OR DRIZZLE AFTER MIDNIGHT AS SYSTEM DEPARTS THE AREA. HIGH TEMPERATURES ON SUNDAY ARE A CHALLENGE BEHIND THE DEPARTING SYSTEM. WITH THE AMOUNT OF COLD AIR JUST NORTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER...THINK SOME OF THIS COOLER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE STATE DURING THE DAY. HAVE LOWERED MAX TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS BRIEF SHOT OF COOLER AIR. THE HIGH THEN SHIFTS TO THE EAST OF THE STATE SUNDAY NIGHT. HIGH CLOUDS WILL BE ON THE INCREASE LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. MONDAY WILL BE UNSEASONABLY MILD WITH HIGHS IN THE 50S TO LOWER 60S. IF WE COULD GET SOME SUNSHINE AND MIX TO 925MB...TEMPERATURES OFF THE ECMWF WOULD SUGGEST HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE TO UPPER 60S. THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AS CLOUDS WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE DAY WITH SHOWERS BREAKING OUT DURING THE AFTERNOON. CURRENTLY...HAVE HIGHS IN THE MIDDLE 50S NORTH TO AROUND 60 SOUTH. RECORD HIGHS FOR THIS DATE ARE IN THE UPPER 50S TO LOWER 60S AT MOST LOCATIONS. A FEW RECORD COULD BE BROKEN. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...BRINGING AN END TO THE RAIN MONDAY NIGHT. CLOUDS WILL DECREASE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA LATER MONDAY NIGHT. WILL CONTINUE A SMALL CHANCE FOR SNOW SHOWERS ACROSS THE VERY FAR NORTH TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. AT THIS TIME...WINDS WILL BE TOO WESTERLY FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT ACCUMULATION. HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER PATTERN ON WEDNESDAY...THEN RETURN FLOW PRECIPITATION BREAKS OUT THURSDAY AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM. SHOULD BE RAIN SOUTH AND A MIX OF RAIN OR SNOW OVER THE FAR NORTH. COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY NIGHT WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO THE AREA ON FRIDAY. AS FOR TEMPERATURES...TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE MAINLY ABOVE NORMAL DURING THE PERIOD. WILL NEED TO WATCH TEMPERATURES TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...AND AGAIN NEXT FRIDAY. WITH SUCH COLD AIR JUST NORTH OF THE CANADIAN BORDER...MODELS MAY NOT HAVE A GOOD HANDLE OF INTRUSION OF ARCTIC AIR INTO WISCONSIN DURING THESE DAYS. LATER FORECASTS MAY NEED TO LOWER MAX TEMPERATURES SEVERAL DEGREES. && .AVIATION...IFR CEILINGS AND/OR VISIBILITIES EXPECTED TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AS WARM MOIST AIR MOVES NORTHWARD OVER COLD OR SNOW COVERED GROUND. CONDITIONS BELOW MINIMA POSSIBLE AT SOME AIRPORTS IN CENTRAL AND NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN. RDM && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 205 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-011200- VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-LINCOLN-LANGLADE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-DOOR-MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE- WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA-WINNEBAGO-CALUMET- MANITOWOC-SOUTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN OCONTO- 205 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT PATCHY FREEZING DRIZZLE COULD LEAD TO SOME LOCALIZED HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS TONIGHT OVER MAINLY NORTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO REPORT ANY SITUATIONS WHERE FREEZING DRIZZLE LEADS TO HAZARDOUS ROAD OR SIDEWALK CONDITIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY. LMZ521-522-541>543-011200- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 205 PM CST FRI NOV 30 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. TH/RE
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Continued below normal precipitation across north-central Wisconsin kept the area in the severe drought (D2) category throughout December 2012.
Continued below normal precipitation across north-central Wisconsin kept the area in the severe drought (D2) category throughout December 2012.
Continued below normal precipitation across north-central Wisconsin kept the area in the severe drought (D2) category throughout December 2012.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, December 2012
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 415799, 415800, 415801.