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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Gaylord, MI

December 13, 200510 counties in Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter storm watch at Dec 13, 2005, 4:04 PM EST for 10 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 14, 2005, 4:22 PM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 13, 2005, 4:04 PM EST (21:04 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 14, 2005, 4:22 PM EST
Expired
Dec 16, 2005, 4:23 AM EST
In force
36 hr
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI

Counties Alcona County, MI, Alpena County, MI, Arenac County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Gladwin County, MI, Iosco County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Ogemaw County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:02 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 332 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 12:00Z on 2005-12-13Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2005-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 53 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.