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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Marquette, MI

July 16, 2006Houghton County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2006, 7:13 AM EDT for Houghton County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 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
Jul 16, 2006, 7:13 AM EDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2006, 10:15 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Houghton County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 451 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2006-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 402 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Minneapolis, MN at 00:00Z on 2006-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 217 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-503 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
395 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 flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 58 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 16, 1:53 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 16, 3:07 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT58 min
Jul 15, 9:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT29 min
Jul 15, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson30 min
Jul 15, 11:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTKeweenaw23 min
Jul 15, 11:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT64 min
Jul 16, 12:36 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT84 min
Jul 16, 1:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT30 min
Jul 16, 1:59 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT2 hr
Jul 16, 3:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT63 min
Jul 16, 3:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT37 min
Jul 16, 3:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Ontonagon44 min
Jul 16, 3:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw67 min
Jul 16, 3:44 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT46 min
Jul 16, 4:06 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT114 min
Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT45 min
Jul 16, 4:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette45 min
Jul 16, 4:59 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT61 min
Jul 16, 5:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw62 min
Jul 16, 5:24 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT51 min
Jul 16, 5:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTAlger, Luce60 min
Jul 16, 5:48 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT57 min
Jul 16, 5:58 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT62 min
Jul 16, 6:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft14 min
Jul 16, 6:02 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT43 min
Jul 16, 6:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton34 min
Jul 16, 6:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton61 min
Jul 16, 6:45 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT90 min
Jul 16, 7:51 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT54 min
Jul 16, 8:11 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT64 min
Jul 16, 9:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw33 min
Jul 16, 9:43 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT62 min
Jul 16, 10:05 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT55 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.