Low pressure moved across Wisconsin and rapidly deepened. Heavy snow and high winds, accompanied by thunderstorms at times, affected much of northwest and north central Wisconsin.
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The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
Low pressure moved across Wisconsin and rapidly deepened. Heavy snow and high winds, accompanied by thunderstorms at times, affected much of northwest and north central Wisconsin. The snow combined with the high winds to cause considerable blowing and drifting snow. The heaviest snowfall totals in north central Wisconsin included 13.0 inches at Winchester (Vilas Co.) and 8.0 inches at Minocqua (Oneida Co.).
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 Feb 20, 5:16 PM CST, 44 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 516 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 NEW INFORMATION ADDED TO UPDATE SECTION .UPDATE... ISSUED AT 509 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 A CALL TO THE LOCAL SHERIFF DEPARTMENTS IN MARATHON AND WOOD COUNTIES INDICATED ROADS WERE BECOMING SLICK. AIR TEMPERATURES WERE ONLY A DEGREE OR TWO ABOVE FREEZING AND SUSPECT ROADS WILL BECOME WORSE THIS EVENING AS THE SUN GOES DOWN. WILL CONTINUE THE WARNING DUE TO THE MIX...WHICH SHOULD CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW LATER THIS EVENING. MEANWHILE...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE NOTED ACROSS PORTAGE AND WAUPACA COUNTIES INTO THE FOX VALLEY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD COME TO AN END BY MID EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY PRODUCE SOME SLEET. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT AND FRIDAY ISSUED AT 235 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 NO CHANGES TO HEADLINES WITH THE AFTN ISSUANCE. RAPIDLY DEEPENING CYCLONE TO LIFT RIGHT ACRS THE FCST AREA TONIGHT. TRACK OF SYSTEM A LITTLE FARTHER W THAN EARLIER ANTICIPATED...AND WARM AIR ALOFT WL BE DRIVEN FARTHER WWD ACRS THE FCST AREA. THAT WL LIMIT SNOW TOTALS. ONLY EXPECT WARNING CRITERIA SNOWS ACRS WRN ONEIDA/VILAS AND MAYBE FAR NWRN LINCOLN. BUT WL KEEP THE REST OF THE WARNING INTACT AND WORD IT MORE FOR WINTRY MIX. ALTHOUGH 850 MB TEMPS COLLAPSE AS THE STORM CENTER NEARS THE AREA...IT DOES NOT APPEAR WE WL HAVE DEEP ENOUGH SATURATION TO INTRODUCE ICE CRYSTALS INTO THE LOWER CLDS THAT WL BE BENEATH UPR DRY SLOT DRIVING NEWD ACRS THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING. VERY WINDY AND COLDER WX ANTICIPATED FRI IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SYSTEM. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY ISSUED AT 235 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 THE MAIN STORY FOR THE EXTENDED FCST WL BE THE NEW SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR NEXT WEEK OVER THE NE QUADRANT OF THE CONUS AS A SHARP UPR RDG DEVELOPS OVER THE WRN CONUS/WRN CANADA AND A BROAD URP TROF DEVELOPS OVER E-CNTRL NOAM. TEMPS ARE FCST TO NOSEDIVE AS MUCH AS 20 TO 30 DEGS BELOW NORMAL BY MID-WEEK WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF MORE WIND CHILL HEADLINES. THE ONLY GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE MAIN STORM TRACK TO DIVE WELL TO OUR SOUTH...THUS NO BIG STORMS TO DEAL WITH. LARGE CYCLONE CONTS TO SLOWLY LIFT NWD TOWARD HUDSON BAY FRI NGT WITH THE CYCLONIC FLOW/WRAP-AROUND MOISTURE DECREASING IN THE PROCESS. THERE STILL MAY BE SOME LINGERING LIGHT SNOW OR FLURRIES ACROSS THE NORTH...ESPECIALLY DURING THE EVENING SO HAVE KEPT A LOW-END POP FOR THAT PART OF THE FCST AREA. OTHERWISE...PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES ARE EXPECTED WITH CAA CONTINUING TO OVERSPREAD WI ON BLUSTERY WEST WINDS. MIN TEMPS SHOULD MAINLY BE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO...WITH A FEW LOCATIONS IN THE NORTH DIPPING JUST BELOW ZERO. OVRNGT WIND CHILLS COULD EASILY REACH THE TEENS BELOW ZERO. LITTLE CHANGE SYNOPTICALLY-SPEAKING TO TAKE PLACE ON SAT AS THE LARGE CYCLONE ESSENTIALLY SITS AND SPINS OVER HUDSON BAY AND THE NEW UPR RDG CONTS TO BUILD OVER THE ERN PACIFIC. THE GUSTY WEST WINDS WL PERSIST THRU THE DAY BETWEEN THE SFC LOW TO OUR NORTH AND HI PRES NOSING SEWD FROM THE CANADIAN PRAIRIE TO THE MIDWEST. NO TRIGGER EVIDENT FOR PCPN AS THE MAIN MID-LEVEL SHORTWAVE TRACK MOVES ALONG THE WI/IL BORDER...THUS HAVE KEPT SAT DRY...BLUSTERY AND COOL. MAX TEMPS SHOULD MAINLY BE IN THE MID TO UPR TEENS WITH A FEW LWR 20S POSSIBLE WEST OF THE FOX VALLEY. THIS BROAD AREA OF HI PRES TO BECOME MORE DOMINANT WITH TIME AND FORCE THE MAIN STORM TRACK TO SHIFT WELL SOUTH OF WI. BY SAT NGT... THE HI PRES TO STRETCH FROM ALBERTA THRU THE MIDWEST TO THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY. THIS WOULD KEEP SKY CONDITIONS MOSTLY CLEAR TO PARTLY CLOUDY FOR MOST OF WI WITH A FEW MORE CLOUDS IN THE NORTH DUE TO THE OLD STORM STILL SPINNING AROUND NEAR HUDSON BAY. MIN TEMPS ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE SINGLE DIGITS EITHER ABOVE OR BELOW ZERO WITH WIND CHILLS AGAIN IN THE TEENS BELOW ZERO. ONLY SUBTLE CHANGES WERE MADE HEADED INTO SUNDAY AS THE OLD STORM BEGINS TO SHIFT EAST AWAY FROM HUDSON BAY AND A NEW PACIFIC SYSTEM MOVES TOWARD THE CNTRL ROCKIES. HI PRES REMAINS IN CHARGE OF NE WI WEATHER UNDER PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES. 8H TEMPS CONT TO SLOWLY COOL...THUS A SLOW DOWNWARD TREND IN MAX TEMPS TO BE OBSERVED. LOOK FOR READINGS TO ONLY TOP OUT IN THE MID TEENS CNTRL/N-CNTRL...15-20 DEG RANGE E-CNTRL WI. THIS PACIFIC SYSTEM (WEAK CLIPPER) TO RIDE THE BAROCLINIC ZONE INTO THE NRN/CNTRL PLAINS SUNDAY NGT AND UPR MS VALLEY/MIDWEST ON MON. CLOUDS SHOULD GRADUALLY INCREASE OVER WI LATER SUNDAY NGT WITH THE MAIN QUESTION BEING WHERE THE NRN FRINGE OF PCPN WL BE LOCATED FOR MON. TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY YET TO ADD ANY POPS TO THE FCST ACROSS CNTRL/E-CNTRL WI...SO HAVE KEPT THE FCST DRY FOR NOW WITH TEMPS ON MON IN THE LWR TO MID TEENS. THIS LITTLE SYSTEM CONTS TO MOVE E-SE ACROSS SRN SECTIONS OF THE GREAT LAKES TOWARD THE OHIO RIVER VALLEY MON NGT. WL CONT THE NEED TO MONITOR THE NRN EDGE OF PCPN...ESPECIALLY WITH THE ADDITION OF A NRN STREAM SHORTWAVE TROF PROGGED TO MOVE THRU WI. PREFER TO RUN WITH THE DRY FCST UNLESS A PRONOUNCED SHIFT NORTH BY THE MDLS TAKES PLACE. THE WEST COAST UPR RDG TO BE IN PLACE BY TUE WITH DOWNSTREAM UPR HGTS FALLING OVER THE GREAT LAKES. TEMPS ALOFT WL CONT TO SLOWLY FALL (8H TEMPS TO BE AROUND -22C BY 00Z WED)...THEREFORE MAX TEMPS FOR TUE TO BE IN THE UPR SINGLE DIGITS TO MID TEENS. DRY AND UNSEASONABLY COLD CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED FOR THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AS 8H TEMPS APPROACH -30C OVER WI. OVRNGT LOWS WL DROP INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS AND TEENS BELOW ZERO WITH ENUF WIND TO LIKELY GENERATE DANGEROUS WIND CHILLS AND THE NEED FOR HEADLINES. MAX TEMPS TO ONLY REACH THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO ON WED AND POSSIBLY NOT BE ABLE TO GET ABOVE ZERO OVER CNTRL/N-CNTRL WI ON THU. THIS WOULD BE AT LEAST 30 DEGS BELOW NORMAL FOR LATE FEB!. && .AVIATION...FOR 00 TAF ISSUANCE ISSUED AT 509 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 INTENSE STORM TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN THIS EVENING...BRING RAIN TO THE EAST AND A MIXED BAG ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. THE ONLY PLACE THAT COULD SEE HEAVY SNOW WILL BE UP TOWARDS VILAS COUNTY. IFR CIGS WILL CONTINUE WITH SOME GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT INTO MVFR CATEGORY LATER TONIGHT FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. OCCASIONAL LIGHT CAN BE EXPECTED ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE SYSTEM. THE BIG STORY WILL BE THE WIND. GUSTS OF 35 TO 45 KNOTS EXPECTED LATE THIS EVENING ITNO FRIDAY MORNING. A FEW GUSTS TO AROUND 50 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE FOX VALLEY AND LAKESHORE REGION. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON...BUT WILL STILL BE PRETTY BLUSTERY INTO FRIDAY EVENING. && .GRB WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WIND ADVISORY FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO NOON CST FRIDAY FOR WIZ022-038>040-048>050. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY FOR WIZ012-013-020- 021-031-036-037-045-073-074. WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL NOON CST FRIDAY FOR WIZ005-010-011- 018-019-030-035. && UPDATE.........ECKBERG SHORT TERM.....SKOWRONSKI LONG TERM......KALLAS AVIATION.......SKOWRONSKI
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 319 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-211200- 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- 319 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL TRACK ACROSS THE STATE TONIGHT. THE STORM WILL BRING HEAVY SNOW TO FAR NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION FROM CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...AND PRIMARILY RAIN TO EAST-CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH SLEET OR SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. STRONG WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP AS THE STORM STARTS TO EXIT THE REGION AFTER MIDNIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN COULD LEAD TO SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAY AND PARKING LOTS. TRAVEL WILL BECOME EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS ACROSS CENTRAL...NORTH- CENTRAL...AND NORTHEAST WISCONSIN TONIGHT. TRAVEL CONDITIONS ACROSS EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL DETERIORATE LATE TONIGHT AS WINDS INCREASE AND LINGERING PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SNOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE POOR TRAVEL CONDITIONS AND VERY WINDY CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING...THEN A GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT WILL BEGIN TO OCCUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON. ANOTHER SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR IS EXPECTED NEXT WEEK...WITH THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES OCCURRING ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. SUB-ZERO TEMPERATURES...COMBINED WITH ENOUGH WIND...WILL LIKELY GENERATE DANGEROUS WIND CHILL READINGS AS COLD AS 25 BELOW TO 35 BELOW ZERO. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO FORWARD SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS AND WIND SPEED REPORTS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GREEN BAY. LMZ521-522-541>543-211200- THE BAY OF GREEN BAY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-LAKE MICHIGAN FROM WASHINGTON ISLAND TO SHEBOYGAN- 319 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LAKE MICHIGAN AND THE WATERS OF GREEN BAY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT EAST WINDS COULD GUST TO GALE FORCE BY EARLY EVENING. WINDS WILL WILL VEER SOUTHWEST AND INCREASE TO GALE FORCE AFTER MIDNIGHT. A FEW STORM FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY SOUTHWEST GALES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON. A FEW STORM FORCE GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY MORNING. JS/APK
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 125 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-202100- VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN MARINETTE- LINCOLN-LANGLADE-MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-SOUTHERN OCONTO-DOOR- MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA- WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-MANITOWOC- INCLUDING EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON...CRIVITZ...TOMAHAWK... ANTIGO...STURGEON BAY...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS...STEVENS POINT... APPLETON...GREEN BAY...ALGOMA...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH...CHILTON AND TWO RIVERS 125 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 ...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...A WINTRY MIX TO CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...AND STRONG WINDS TO EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENING OVER NORTH-CENTRAL MISSOURI EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WILL TRACK TO CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY MIDNIGHT...THEN TO LAKE SUPERIOR BY FRIDAY MORNING. THE STORM WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WINTRY WEATHER TO THE AREA. INTERMITTENT LIGHT RAIN WILL CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON. THE RAIN COULD BE MIXED WITH SNOW AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY IN ANY HEAVIER BANDS OF PRECIPITATION THAT DEVELOP. BUT AIR TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES ABOVE FREEZING WILL LIMIT ANY ACCUMULATION ON ROADWAYS. SO ALTHOUGH ISOLATED SLIPPERY SPOTS ARE POSSIBLE...TRAVEL IMPACTS THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON ARE EXPECTED TO BE MINOR. THE MAIN BAND OF PRECIPITATION WITH THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO SURGE NORTH ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. PRECIPITATION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS EXPECTED TO FALL AS MAINLY RAIN IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THOUGH SNOW AND SLEET COULD BE MIXED IN AT TIMES. THE MAIN IMPACT THE STORM WILL HAVE IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL BE THE WIND...WHICH COULD GUST TO 50 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD EXPERIENCE A MIX OF RAIN... SNOW...SLEET...AND SOME FREEZING RAIN. THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION TYPES WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...BUT TRAVEL COULD STILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. PRECIPITATION IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW AROUND MIDNIGHT...WITH THE CHANGE TAKING SEVERAL HOURS LONGER TO REACH THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. ONCE THE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SNOW...PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING. BUT THE PRECIPITATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT BY THEN. THAT WILL LIMIT SNOWFALL TOTALS SOME FROM WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. SINCE THE PRECIPITATION WILL REACH NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN SHORTLY AFTER DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE REACHED...IT WILL LIKELY START AS A RAIN SNOW MIX. BUT THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD QUICKLY CHANGE TO MAINLY SNOW AND SLEET TO THE NORTHWEST OF RHINELANDER...AND TO MIXED SNOW...SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN FROM THE MERRILL AND TOMAHAWK AREAS...NORTHEAST THROUGH THE RHINELANDER AREA...TO NORTHERN FOREST COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MIDDLE TO LATE EVENING HOURS. ANYONE WITH TRAVEL PLANS ACROSS WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN ARE EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE VERY RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. SKOWRONSKI WEATHER.GOV/GREENBAY
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 300 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-202300- VILAS-ONEIDA-FOREST-FLORENCE-NORTHERN MARINETTE-SOUTHERN MARINETTE- LINCOLN-LANGLADE-MENOMINEE-NORTHERN OCONTO-SOUTHERN OCONTO-DOOR- MARATHON-SHAWANO-WOOD-PORTAGE-WAUPACA-OUTAGAMIE-BROWN-KEWAUNEE-WAUSHARA- WINNEBAGO-CALUMET-MANITOWOC- INCLUDING EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON...CRIVITZ...TOMAHAWK... ANTIGO...STURGEON BAY...WAUSAU...WISCONSIN RAPIDS...STEVENS POINT... APPLETON...GREEN BAY...ALGOMA...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH...CHILTON AND TWO RIVERS 300 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 ...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...A WINTRY MIX TO CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...AND STRONG WINDS TO EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENING OVER SOUTHEAST IOWA AT MID-AFTERNOON WILL TRACK TO CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY MIDNIGHT...THEN TO LAKE SUPERIOR BY FRIDAY MORNING. THE STORM WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WINTRY WEATHER TO THE AREA. AT 255 PM...THE MAIN BAND OF PRECIPITATION WITH THE STORM WAS SURGING NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. PRECIPITATION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS EXPECTED TO FALL AS MAINLY RAIN IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THOUGH SNOW AND SLEET COULD BE MIXED IN AT TIMES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. THE MAIN IMPACT THE STORM WILL HAVE IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL BE THE WIND... WHICH COULD GUST TO 50 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD EXPERIENCE A MIX OF RAIN... SNOW...SLEET...AND SOME FREEZING RAIN. THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION TYPES WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...BUT TRAVEL COULD STILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. PRECIPITATION IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW AROUND MIDNIGHT...WITH THE CHANGE TAKING SEVERAL HOURS LONGER TO REACH THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. ONCE THE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SNOW...PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING. BUT THE PRECIPITATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT BY THEN. THAT WILL LIMIT SNOWFALL TOTALS SOME FROM WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. THE PRECIPITATION OVER FAR NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL LIKELY START AS A RAIN SNOW MIX. BUT THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD QUICKLY CHANGE TO MAINLY SNOW AND SLEET TO THE NORTHWEST OF RHINELANDER...AND TO MIXED SNOW... SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN FROM THE MERRILL AND TOMAHAWK AREAS... NORTHEAST THROUGH THE RHINELANDER AREA...TO NORTHERN FOREST COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MIDDLE TO LATE EVENING HOURS. ANYONE WITH TRAVEL PLANS ACROSS WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN ARE EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE VERY RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. SKOWRONSKI WEATHER.GOV/GREENBAY
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 418 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-202330- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA...STURGEON BAY...WAUSAU... WISCONSIN RAPIDS...STEVENS POINT...APPLETON...GREEN BAY... ALGOMA...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH...CHILTON...TWO RIVERS...CRIVITZ 418 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 ...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... A WINTRY MIX TO CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...AND STRONG WINDS TO EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENING OVER NORTHEAST IOWA WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY MIDNIGHT...THEN TO LAKE SUPERIOR FRIDAY MORNING. THE STORM WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WINTRY WEATHER TO THE AREA. AT 420 PM...THE MAIN BAND OF PRECIPITATION WITH THE STORM WAS SURGING NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA FROM SOUTHWEST WISCONSIN. PRECIPITATION DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING IS EXPECTED TO FALL AS MAINLY RAIN IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN...THOUGH SNOW AND SLEET COULD BE MIXED IN AT TIMES. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE THIS EVENING. THE MAIN IMPACT THE STORM WILL HAVE IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL BE THE WIND... WHICH COULD GUST TO 50 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN SHOULD EXPERIENCE A MIX OF RAIN... SNOW...SLEET...AND SOME FREEZING RAIN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION TYPES WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...BUT TRAVEL COULD STILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. PRECIPITATION IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW TOWARDS MIDNIGHT...WITH THE CHANGE TAKING SEVERAL HOURS LONGER TO REACH THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. ONCE THE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SNOW...PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING. BUT THE PRECIPITATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT BY THEN. THAT WILL LIMIT SNOWFALL TOTALS SOME FROM WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY EXPECTED. THE PRECIPITATION OVER FAR NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL LIKELY START AS A RAIN SNOW MIX...BUT THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD QUICKLY CHANGE TO MAINLY SNOW AND SLEET TO THE NORTHWEST OF RHINELANDER...AND TO MIXED SNOW... SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN FROM THE MERRILL AND TOMAHAWK AREAS... NORTHEAST THROUGH THE RHINELANDER AREA...TO NORTHERN FOREST COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MIDDLE TO LATE EVENING HOURS. ANYONE WITH TRAVEL PLANS ACROSS WISCONSIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN ARE EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE VERY RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. ECKBERG
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREEN BAY WI 536 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-210100- 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- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...EAGLE RIVER...RHINELANDER...CRANDON... TOMAHAWK...ANTIGO...KESHENA...STURGEON BAY...WAUSAU... WISCONSIN RAPIDS...STEVENS POINT...APPLETON...GREEN BAY... ALGOMA...WAUTOMA...OSHKOSH...CHILTON...TWO RIVERS...CRIVITZ 536 PM CST THU FEB 20 2014 ...MAJOR WINTER STORM TO BRING HEAVY SNOW TO NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... A WINTRY MIX TO CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN...AND STRONG WINDS TO EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN... LOW PRESSURE STRENGTHENING OVER NORTHEAST IOWA WILL MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL WISCONSIN BY MIDNIGHT...THEN TO LAKE SUPERIOR FRIDAY MORNING. THE STORM WILL BRING A WIDE VARIETY OF WINTRY WEATHER TO THE AREA. AT 545 PM...RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS NORTHEAST AND EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING SLEET. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD COME TO AN END BY MID EVENING. THE MAIN IMPACT THE STORM WILL HAVE IN EAST-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL BE THE STRONG WINDS... WHICH COULD GUST TO 50 MPH AFTER MIDNIGHT. CENTRAL THROUGH NORTHEAST WISCONSIN NORTH OF THE FOX VALLEY SHOULD EXPERIENCE A MIX OF RAIN... SNOW...SLEET...AND SOME FREEZING RAIN. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION TYPES WILL LIMIT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS...BUT TRAVEL COULD STILL BECOME VERY HAZARDOUS. PRECIPITATION IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW TOWARDS MIDNIGHT...WITH THE CHANGE TAKING SEVERAL HOURS LONGER TO REACH THE FAR NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE STATE. ONCE THE PRECIPITATION CHANGES TO SNOW...PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY MORNING. BUT THE PRECIPITATION IS NOT EXPECTED TO HAVE DIMINISHED SOMEWHAT BY THEN. THAT WILL LIMIT SNOWFALL TOTALS. THE PRECIPITATION OVER FAR NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN WILL LIKELY START AS A RAIN SNOW MIX...BUT THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD QUICKLY CHANGE TO MAINLY SNOW AND SLEET TO THE NORTHWEST OF RHINELANDER...AND TO MIXED SNOW... SLEET...AND FREEZING RAIN FROM THE MERRILL AND TOMAHAWK AREAS... NORTHEAST THROUGH THE RHINELANDER AREA...TO NORTHERN FOREST COUNTY. THE PRECIPITATION IS LIKELY TO BE HEAVY AT TIMES...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MIDDLE TO LATE EVENING HOURS. ANYONE WITH TRAVEL PLANS ACROSS WISCONSIN TONIGHT SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION. TRAVEL CONDITIONS IN NORTH-CENTRAL WISCONSIN ARE EXPECTED TO DETERIORATE VERY RAPIDLY THIS EVENING. ECKBERG
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
The heaviest snowfall in Vilas County was in the far northwest where Winchester received a storm total of 13.0 inches.
The highest reported snowfall total in Oneida County was 8.0 inches at Minocqua.
Snowfall estimated in the 6 to 8 inch range fell across parts of the county.
Snowfall estimated in the 6 to 8 inch range fell across parts of the county.
Snowfall estimated in the 6 to 8 inch range fell across parts of the county.
Up to 6 inches of snow fell in 12 hours across parts of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, February 2014
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: 501408, 501409, 501410, 501411, 501412, 501413.