Alert archive / Michigan / Snow Advisories in 2006
Snow Advisory 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this snow advisory at Mar 15, 2006, 4:13 PM EST for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Mar 16, 2006, 10:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2006, 4:13 PM EST (21:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2006, 10:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2006, 3:37 PM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 869 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.