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Snow Advisory 2, NWS Marquette, MI

November 23, 2005Schoolcraft County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this snow advisory at Nov 23, 2005, 4:17 AM EST for Schoolcraft County, Michigan. It took effect at Nov 23, 2005, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 23, 2005, 4:17 AM EST (09:17 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 23, 2005, 10:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 23, 2005, 5:04 PM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI

County Schoolcraft County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:15 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 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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 2005-11-23Temperature 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 2005-11-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 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
1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Nov 23, 4:10 AM EST, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 4:10 AM EST, 7 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 22, 5:10 PM EST, 11 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
510 PM EST TUE NOV 22 2005

MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-231300-
ALGER-BARAGA-DELTA-DICKINSON-GOGEBIC-IRON-KEWEENAW-LUCE-MARQUETTE-
MENOMINEE-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-ONTONAGON-
SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-
510 PM EST TUE NOV 22 2005

...HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW AND STRONG WINDS EXPECTED WEDNESDAY NIGHT
THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WEST AND CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY

EXPECT 1 TO 2 INCHES OF SNOW LATE TONIGHT OVER WESTERN UPPER
MICHIGAN WITH AN ADDITIONAL INCH OR TWO WEDNESDAY. PLAN ON 1 TO 4
INCHES OF SNOW OVER CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY. STRONG
NORTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR AND ON THE KEWEENAW
PENINSULA. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 45 MPH LATE IN THE AFTERNOON.

GALE FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED ON WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY

EXPECT LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS...HEAVY AT TIMES...OVER WESTERN
UPPER MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS
GUSTING TO 40 MPH WILL CAUSE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WITH CONSIDERABLE
BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 55 MPH NEAR THE
LAKESHORE AND OVER THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA.

EXPECT LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS...HEAVY AT TIMES...OVER CENTRAL
UPPER MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY NEAR BIG BAY AND EAST OF
A LINE FROM HARVEY TO RAPID RIVER. STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS GUSTING TO
40 MPH WILL CAUSE BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WITH CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND
DRIFTING SNOW. WINDS MAY GUST AS HIGH AS 55 MPH NEAR THE LAKESHORE.
HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS AND BLIZZARD CONDITIONS WILL ALSO
SPREAD OVER MUCH OF MARQUETTE COUNTY THURSDAY AS WINDS BECOME MORE
NORTHERLY.

IF YOU HAVE TRAVEL PLANS LATE WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...
PLAN ON DANGEROUS DRIVING CONDITIONS AND LIFE-THREATENING WEATHER.
SOME STRETCHES OF ROADS IN OPEN AREAS NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR MAY BECOME
IMPASSABLE OR MAY BE CLOSED DUE TO BLIZZARD CONDITIONS. IN
ADDITION...POWER OUTAGES AND TREE DAMAGE MAY OCCUR WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AND THURSDAY MORNING DUE TO STRONG WINDS. SEE THE LATEST WINTER
WEATHER STATEMENTS FOR COMPLETE DETAILS ON THIS SEVERE WINTER
WEATHER EVENT.

STORM FORCE WINDS ARE EXPECTED ON LAKE SUPERIOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND
THURSDAY MORNING. FREEZING SPRAY IS EXPECTED ON LAKE SUPERIOR
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY.

THE SNOW AND WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND
FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL:

HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT (ALL LOWER CASE)

ROLFSON

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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.