Alert archive / Michigan / Wind Advisories in 2007
Wind Advisory 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this wind advisory at Apr 23, 2007, 11:03 AM EDT for 13 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 23, 2007, 11:03 AM EDT (15:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1812 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS73 KGRR 231503 NPWGRR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1103 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007 ...STRONG WINDS THROUGH MID AFTERNOON... .SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST UP TO 50 MPH AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE REGION TODAY. MIZ051-052-057>059-064>067-071>074-232000- /O.NEW.KGRR.WI.Y.0004.070423T1503Z-070423T2000Z/ MONTCALM-GRATIOT-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-INGHAM- VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENVILLE...ALMA...GRAND RAPIDS... IONIA...ST. JOHNS...HOLLAND...HASTINGS...CHARLOTTE...LANSING... SOUTH HAVEN...KALAMAZOO...BATTLE CREEK...JACKSON 1103 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL GUST UP TO 50 MPH AT TIMES THROUGH 4 PM. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. A FEW TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES MAY COME DOWN. STAY AWAY FROM DOWNED POWER LINES. $$ MEADE
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS73 KGRR 232002 NPWGRR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 402 PM EDT MON APR 23 2007 MIZ051-052-057>059-064>067-071>074-232115- /O.EXP.KGRR.WI.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-070423T2000Z/ MONTCALM-GRATIOT-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-INGHAM- VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...GREENVILLE...ALMA...GRAND RAPIDS... IONIA...ST. JOHNS...HOLLAND...HASTINGS...CHARLOTTE...LANSING... SOUTH HAVEN...KALAMAZOO...BATTLE CREEK...JACKSON 402 PM EDT MON APR 23 2007 ...WIND ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE WIND ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED A BIT ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH MORE THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW ISOLATED WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. $$ NJJ
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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.