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Lake Effect Snow Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

December 2, 2005Allegan County, Ottawa County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 2, 2005, 11:11 AM EST for Allegan County, Ottawa County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 2, 2005, 11:11 AM EST (16:11 UTC)
Expired: Dec 5, 2005, 4:21 PM EST
In force: 3 days
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Counties Allegan County, MI, Ottawa County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake effect snow warning went out at Dec 2, 3:25 AM EST, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 2, 3:25 AM EST, 7 hours 46 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 2, 11:11 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	GRR	Kalamazoo, Lake, Mason, Oceana, Osceola, Van Buren	4 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan, 2005 Every lake effect snow warning in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.