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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

March 21, 20079 counties in Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this freezing rain advisory at Mar 21, 2007, 10:53 AM EDT for 9 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 21, 2007, 10:53 AM EDT (14:53 UTC)
Expired
Mar 21, 2007, 4:09 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI

Counties Alcona County, MI, Arenac County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Gladwin County, MI, Iosco County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Ogemaw County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Roscommon County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:56 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 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 312 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-21Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2007-03-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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 freezing rain advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freezing rain advisory went out at Mar 21, 7:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 7:20 AM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 21, 7:59 PM EDTDense Fog AdvisoryAPXAlcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Cheboygan and 16 more10 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in Michigan, 2007Every freezing rain advisory in 2007

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.