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Wind Chill Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

February 17, 20069 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind chill warning at Feb 17, 2006, 4:38 AM EST for 9 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Feb 17, 2006, 4:30 PM EST. It was in force for 19 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 17, 2006, 4:38 AM EST (09:38 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 17, 2006, 4:30 PM EST
Expired: Feb 18, 2006, 11:29 AM EST
In force: 19 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Baraga County, MI, Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 209 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 554 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 585 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 wind chill 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 wind chill warning went out at Feb 16, 4:20 PM EST, 12 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 4:20 PM EST, 12 hours 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 16, 5:05 PM EST, 11 hours 33 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 17, 4:38 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	MQT	Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw, Ontonagon	7 hr
Feb 17, 4:38 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	MQT	Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton and 4 more	31 hr
Feb 17, 2:55 PM EST	Blizzard Warning	MQT	Houghton, Keweenaw	14 hr
Feb 17, 4:30 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	MQT	Houghton, Keweenaw, Schoolcraft	19 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Warnings in Michigan, 2006 Every wind chill 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.