The Kenosha County Medical Examiner reported a death due to hypothermia.
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The Kenosha County Medical Examiner reported a death due to hypothermia.
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 Milwaukee, WI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 27, 9:33 PM CST, 2 hours 27 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 933 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 .UPDATE... NO CHANGE IN LOW TEMPERATURES. WINDS HAVE NOT DECOUPLED COMPLETELY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL/SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. IR IMAGE SHOWS AREA WITH FRESH SNOW OVER EASTERN IOWA AND NORTHWEST ILLINOIS HAS BECOME CALM WITH TEMPERATURES DROPPING TO AROUND -10. WITH LIGHT WINDS WILL NOT HAVE ANY WIND CHILL ADVISORIES. && .AVIATION/06Z TAFS/... VFR CLEAR CONDITIONS TONIGHT WITH SOME HIGH/MID CLOUDS EXPECTED BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LIGHT SOUTHWEST WINDS TONIGHT. THE SURFACE HIGH MOVES OFF THE THE EAST. && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 218 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2015/ TONIGHT AND SATURDAY - CONFIDENCE...HIGH. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE FROM INDIANA TO THE EAST COAST BRINGING A CLEAR NIGHT AND A SUNNY SATURDAY. THERE IS GOOD AGREEMENT AMONG MODELS OF -14C 925MB TEMPS WHICH YIELDS MIN TEMPS IN THE NEGATIVE SINGLE DIGITS UNDER A STRONG INVERSION. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST WHICH IS ENOUGH TO CREATE WIND CHILL VALUES DOWN TO -15 TO -19 EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. WARM AIR ADVECTION STARTS SATURDAY AFTERNOON ON SOUTHWEST FLOW. EXPECT HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER TEENS. MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL PUSH INTO SW WISCONSIN LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THE NEXT SYSTEM. SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS MEDIUM. A FAIRLY LOW AMPLITUDE SYSTEM WILL BE SKIRTING BY PRIMARILY TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA DURING THIS TIME. THE BEST MOISTURE AND FORCING WILL BE SOUTH. BACKED OFF ON POPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT AS WE/LL STILL BE UNDER THE DOMINATING INFLUENCE OF HIGH PRESSURE WITH THE MOISTURE RETURN LIKELY HOLDING OFF UNTIL SUNDAY. WILL KEEP A VERY SMALL MENTION OF LIGHT SNOW ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER...BUT KEEP IT DRY ELSEWHERE. AS A WEAK SURFACE TROF ARRIVES ON SUNDAY...SOME OF THE MOISTURE TO THE SOUTH WILL BE PULLED FARTHER NORTH AND AT THIS POINT WE SHOULD SEE SOME LIGHT SNOW ACROSS THE AREA...ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN FORECAST AREA. MUCH LOWER CHANCE WEST AND NORTH OF MADISON. THE SOUTHEAST COULD SEE ABOUT AN INCH OF ACCUMULATION WHILE MADISON LOOKS LIKE 1/2 INCH...LESS TO THE NORTH/WEST. A MINOR EVENT. SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS HIGH. COLD HIGH PRESSURE ARRIVES FOR THIS PERIOD. ANY LINGERING LIGHT SNOW WILL EXIT THE SOUTHEAST QUICKLY DURING SUNDAY EVENING. MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS MEDIUM. LOOKS LIKE AN UNSETTLE PERIOD WITH LOW PRESSURE MOVING IN. THIS IS ONE OF THE MORE ENERGETIC SYSTEMS WE/VE SEEN IN SOME TIME AND HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DUMP SOME ACCUMULATING SNOW...MAYBE SOME ICE IN THE FAR SOUTH. IN A CLASSIC PROCESS...THE UPPER FLOW BACKS TO THE SOUTHWEST WITH A DIGGING LARGE AMPLITUDE TROF OVER THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS...UP THROUGH CENTRAL CANADA. RIDGING EXISTS OVER THE EASTERN U.S. THIS OPENS THE DOOR TO BETTER MOISTURE TRANSPORT AND EXPOSURE TO THE INFLUENCE OF SOME SHORT WAVE ENERGY MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH THAT FLOW. FOR THIS FAR OUT...THE MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT. THAT BEING THE GFS/ECMWF AND THE CANADIAN GEM. THEY ALL SHOW SOME FORM OF SURFACE LOW DEVELOPMENT OCCURRING ON TUESDAY WITH THE LOW MOVING ROUGHLY OVER THE CHICAGO AREA. THE GFS IS MORE AMPLIFIED THAN THE EC AND THE GEM. THE EARLIER RUNS WERE A BIT FARTHER SOUTH THAN THE CURRENT 12Z RUNS THIS MORNING. THEY ALL NOW SUGGEST THE PRECIP STARTING OUT AS LIGHT SNOW MONDAY NIGHT WITH A WARM LAYER GETTING UP INTO THE SOUTHERN 1/3 OF THE FORECAST AREA ON TUESDAY. THIS WOULD BRING A WINTRY MIX OF POSSIBLY RAIN/FREEZING RAIN AND SOME SLEET. WAY TOO EARLY TO GET CUTE ON WHERE THIS WILL LAY OUT AS THE TRACK IS LIKELY TO FLUCTUATE GOING FORWARD. IF THE LOW GOES SOUTH BY JUST 50 MILES...ALL OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN COULD BE SNOW...IF IT GOES NORTH BY THAT AMOUNT...MUCH OF SOUTHERN WISCONSIN COULD SEE A MIX AND MAYBE ALL RAIN ALONG THE IL BORDER. IN THE AREA THAT LOOKS LIKE ALL SNOW AT THIS TIME...ROUGHLY NORTH OF A MILWAUKEE TO MADISON LINE...THERE COULD BE 4 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW. CONFIDENCE ON THE DETAILS IS LOW...BUT CONFIDENCE IS HIGH THAT WE/LL SEE SOME PRECIP. WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...FORECAST CONFIDENCE IS HIGH. HIGH PRESSURE ARRIVES WITH PLENTY OF COLD AIR IN THE WAKE OF THE EXITING LOW. SO COLD AND DRY FOR THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. AVIATION/00Z TAFS/... VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH LIGHT WINDS. MID LEVEL CLOUDS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST WI LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MARINE... WINDS WILL BE LIGHT OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST AS HIGH PRESSURE PASSES TO THE SOUTHEAST. && .MKX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WI...NONE. LM...NONE. && UPDATE...HENTZ TONIGHT/SATURDAY AND AVIATION/MARINE...SPM SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY...DAVIS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI 328 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 WIZ046-047-051-052-056>060-062>072-282130- MARQUETTE-GREEN LAKE-FOND DU LAC-SHEBOYGAN-SAUK-COLUMBIA-DODGE- WASHINGTON-OZAUKEE-IOWA-DANE-JEFFERSON-WAUKESHA-MILWAUKEE- LAFAYETTE-GREEN-ROCK-WALWORTH-RACINE-KENOSHA- 328 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL WISCONSIN...SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN AND SOUTHEAST WISCONSIN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT LATE NIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL FALL TO BETWEEN 0 AND 12 BELOW ZERO. LIGHT WINDS WILL OCCASIONALLY CAUSE WIND CHILLS TO FALL TO 10 AND 20 BELOW AGAIN LATE TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY LOW PRESSURE PASSING JUST JUST SOUTH OF WISCONSIN MAY BRING ACCUMULATING SNOW AND A WINTERY MIX OF PRECIPITATION TO THE AREA MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ643>646-282130- SHEBOYGAN TO PORT WASHINGTON WI- PORT WASHINGTON TO NORTH POINT LIGHT WI- NORTH POINT LIGHT TO WIND POINT WI- WIND POINT WI TO WINTHROP HARBOR IL- 328 PM CST FRI FEB 27 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY WINDS WILL APPROACH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY LEVELS TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE PASSES ACROSS THE REGION. WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MKX
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
The Kenosha County Medical Examiner reported the death of an elderly man due to hypothermia. The temperatures were below zero during the early morning hours with high temperatures in the teens Fahrenheit.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold/Wind Chill, Kenosha | 2015-02-28 | 87 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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