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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this flash flood warning at May 12, 2000, 4:46 PM EDT for Manistee County, Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 5 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
- May 12, 2000, 4:46 PM EDT (20:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Manistee County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 545 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS53 KAPX 122045 FFWAPX MIC101-165-130200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 446 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... MANISTEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN WEXFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT * WIDEPSREAD FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF MANISTEE AND WEXFORD COUNTIES...WITH UP TO 6 INCHES OF WATER COVERING SOME AREA ROADWAYS. * DOPPLER RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN AN HOUR FELL OVER THIS REGION. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE AS MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN FROM WISCONSIN. ONE TO TWO ADDITIONAL INCHES OF RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE DURING THE EARLY EVENING. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE RAPID FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADWAYS AND UNDERPASSES...AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS. MOTORISTS SHOULD AVOID AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. JPB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 61 min |
| May 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 50 min |
| May 12, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 48 min |
| May 12, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 48 min |
| May 12, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 44 min |
| May 12, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Arenac, Gladwin | 37 min |
| May 12, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 42 min |
| May 12, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Iosco | 35 min |
| May 12, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Roscommon | 50 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix, Emmet | 46 min |
| May 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 24 min |
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.