Alert archive / Michigan / Winter Storm Warnings in 2006
Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this winter storm warning at Feb 15, 2006, 3:49 PM EST for 17 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Feb 16, 2006, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 21 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2006, 3:49 PM EST (20:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 16, 2006, 12:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2006, 9:22 PM EST
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Clare County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Ottawa County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 969 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 139 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 15, 11:15 AM EST, 4 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 11:15 AM EST, 4 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 7:15 AM EST, 8 hours 34 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 715 AM EST WED FEB 15 2006 LMZ844>849-MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-161200- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE-MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA- CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-MONTCALM-GRATIOT- OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-INGHAM-VAN BUREN- KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 715 AM EST WED FEB 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW IS EXPECTED TONIGHT NORTH OF A LINE FROM ROUGHLY HOLLAND TO ST JOHNS. A MIXTURE OF FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET IS LIKELY IN A BAND FROM SOUTH HAVEN TO HASTINGS TO LANSING... WITH SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. PRIMARILY RAIN IS EXPECTED SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SOUTH HAVEN TO LANSING TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A MAJOR WINTER STORM WILL IMPACT SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT. STRENGTHENING LOW PRESSURE IS FORECAST TO TRACK FROM CENTRAL ILLINOIS TO SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN DURING THIS TIME. 6 OR MORE INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE ON THURSDAY AND THURSDAY NIGHT NORTH OF A LINE FROM MUSKEGON TO MOUNT PLEASANT. A SIGNIFICANT ICE STORM IS POSSIBLE JUST SOUTH OF THAT...TO A LINE EXTENDING FROM HOLLAND TO LANSING. PRIMARILY RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY SOUTH OF A HOLLAND TO LANSING LINE. THE MIXTURE OF PRECIPITATION WILL CHANGE OVER TO ALL SNOW THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW POSSIBLE AS NORTH WINDS GUST TO 40 MPH. SHOULD SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATIONS TAKE PLACE FROM TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT... THE STRONG WINDS ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM COULD KNOCK DOWN TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES AND CAUSE WIDESPREAD POWER OUTAGES. BITTER COLD ARCTIC AIR WILL ARRIVE FRIDAY AND REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS CAN BE EXPECTED... ALTHOUGH ACCUMULATIONS OVER THE WEEKEND SHOULD BE MINOR. THE SNOW SHOWERS WILL PROBABLY INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY EARLY NEXT WEEK. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. HOWEVER WINTER WEATHER REPORTS SUCH AS PRECIPITATION TYPE AND SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATION MEASUREMENTS WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. USE OUR SPOTTER REPORT FORM AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GRR. MEADE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:49 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 13 hr |
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.