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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

March 30, 2005Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this flash flood warning at Mar 30, 2005, 11:16 PM EST for Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2005, 11:16 PM EST (04:16 UTC)
Expired
Mar 31, 2005, 3:15 AM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wexford County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2005-03-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2005-03-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 63 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1332 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS53 KAPX 310415
FFWAPX
MIC165-310815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
1116 PM EST WED MAR 30 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEXFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 315 AM EST

* HEAVY RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS WEXFORD COUNTY THIS EVENING...
  WITH RADAR ESTIMATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A ONE HOUR
  PERIOD. ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
  TO AFFECT THE AREA BETWEEN 1115 PM AND 100 AM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  CADILLAC...SHERMAN...MESICK...AND MANTON.

RAINFALL COMBINED WITH RECENT SNOWMELT MAY PUSH SOME STREAMS OUT OF 
THEIR BANKS.  BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO 
RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOWING 
WATER. NEARLY HALF OF ALL FLOOD FATALITIES ARE VEHICLE RELATED.

LAT...LON 4419 8578 4419 8538 4449 8538 4449 8582

$$

JPB/MJP

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.