Alert archive / Michigan / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jan 1, 1996, 1:20 PM EST for Ottawa County, Michigan. It was in force for 23 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
- Jan 1, 1996, 1:20 PM EST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 1996, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ottawa County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 11:35 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before
MIZ071>074-080-081-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1135 AM EST MON JAN 1 1996 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR THE COUNTIES OF KALAMAZOO... VAN BUREN... BRANCH... CALHOUN... HILLSDALE... AND JACKSON. A FEW COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE KALAMAZOO... PAW PAW... BATTLE CREEK... JACKSON... HILLSDALE... AND COLDWATER. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR THE OHIO VALLEY BY TUESDAY EVENING. AS THE STORM MOVES NORTHEAST... LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BREAK OUT ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY LATE THIS EVENING. LIGHT SNOW SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN OVERNIGHT... WITH AN INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA BY TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON TUESDAY... AND COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. BY TUESDAY NIGHT... STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA WEST OF I-69... WITH 6 TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA TO THE EAST. TO THE NORTH OF THE WATCH AREA... INCLUDING THE GRAND RAPIDS AND LANSING METRO AREAS... ONLY A FEW INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY NIGHT. ANY VARIATIONS IN THE EXPECTED TRACK OF THIS STORM WILL GREATLY AFFECT THE EXPECTED ACCUMULATIONS. IF THE STORM TRACKS SOUTH OF THE CURRENT FORECAST TRACK... ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY. ANYONE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THROUGH SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... INDIANA... AND OHIO TONIGHT AND TOMORROW SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WORSENING WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. CORRECTED TYPO 3RD PARAGRAPH/TRH
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 11:36 AM EST, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MIZ071>074-080-081-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1135 AM EST MON JAN 1 1996 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR THE COUNTIES OF KALAMAZOO... VAN BUREN... BRANCH... CALHOUN... HILLSDALE... AND JACKSON. A FEW COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE KALAMAZOO... PAW PAW... BATTLE CREEK... JACKSON... HILLSDALE... AND COLDWATER. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR THE OHIO VALLEY BY TUESDAY EVENING. AS THE STORM MOVES NORTHEAST... LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BREAK OUT ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY LATE THIS EVENING. LIGHT SNOW SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN OVERNIGHT... WITH AN INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA BY TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON TUESDAY... AND COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. BY TUESDAY NIGHT... STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA WEST OF I-96... WITH 6 TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA TO THE EAST. TO THE NORTH OF THE WATCH AREA... INCLUDING THE GRAND RAPIDS AND LANSING METRO AREAS... ONLY A FEW INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY NIGHT. ANY VARIATIONS IN THE EXPECTED TRACK OF THIS STORM WILL GREATLY AFFECT THE EXPECTED ACCUMULATIONS. IF THE STORM TRACKS SOUTH OF THE CURRENT FORECAST TRACK... ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY. ANYONE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THROUGH SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... INDIANA... AND OHIO TONIGHT AND TOMORROW SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WORSENING WEATHER AND~ ROAD CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. TRH
Special weather statement, Jan 1, 11:51 AM EST, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MIZ071>074-080-081-012230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1135 AM EST MON JAN 1 1996 ...WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT LATE TONIGHT AND TUESDAY FOR THE COUNTIES OF KALAMAZOO... VAN BUREN... BRANCH... CALHOUN... HILLSDALE... AND JACKSON. A FEW COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE KALAMAZOO... PAW PAW... BATTLE CREEK... JACKSON... HILLSDALE... AND COLDWATER. A DEVELOPING STORM SYSTEM OVER SOUTHEAST TEXAS IS EXPECTED TO INTENSIFY AND MOVE NORTHEAST TO NEAR THE OHIO VALLEY BY TUESDAY EVENING. AS THE STORM MOVES NORTHEAST... LIGHT SNOW IS EXPECTED TO BREAK OUT ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN BY LATE THIS EVENING. LIGHT SNOW SHOULD CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN OVERNIGHT... WITH AN INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA BY TUESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW IS THEN EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON TUESDAY... AND COULD BE HEAVY AT TIMES. BY TUESDAY NIGHT... STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA WEST OF I-69... WITH 6 TO 10 INCHES POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA TO THE EAST. TO THE NORTH OF THE WATCH AREA... INCLUDING THE GRAND RAPIDS AND LANSING METRO AREAS... ONLY A FEW INCHES OF SNOW ARE POSSIBLE BY TUESDAY NIGHT. ANY VARIATIONS IN THE EXPECTED TRACK OF THIS STORM WILL GREATLY AFFECT THE EXPECTED ACCUMULATIONS. IF THE STORM TRACKS SOUTH OF THE CURRENT FORECAST TRACK... ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE REDUCED SIGNIFICANTLY. ANYONE PLANNING TO TRAVEL THROUGH SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... INDIANA... AND OHIO TONIGHT AND TOMORROW SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR WORSENING WEATHER AND ROAD CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS ON THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. CORRECTED TYPO 3RD PARAGRAPH/TRH
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.