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Wind Advisory 13, NWS Marquette, MI

October 3, 2007Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at Oct 3, 2007, 3:23 AM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It took effect at Oct 3, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 3, 2007, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 3, 2007, 4:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 3, 2007, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 297 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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 681 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS73 KMQT 030723
NPWMQT

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
323 AM EDT WED OCT 3 2007

...STRONG WINDS ON THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA EARLY THIS MORNING...

.EXPECT A BRIEF PERIOD OF STRONG WINDS FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF A
COLD FRONT EARLY THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL DIMINISH BY MID MORNING.

MIZ001-003-031200-
/O.NEW.KMQT.WI.Y.0013.071003T0800Z-071003T1200Z/
KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK
323 AM EDT WED OCT 3 2007

...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING. 

EXPECT SUSTAINED WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH EARLY THIS MORNING.
WIND GUSTS OF 45 MPH TO AS HIGH AS 55 MPH WILL ALSO OCCUR. LOOK
FOR THE STRONGEST WINDS OVER EXPOSED HIGHER TERRAIN LOCATIONS AND 
ALONG THE LAKESHORE FROM FREDA AND REDRIDGE TO EAGLE HARBOR AND
COPPER HARBOR. WINDS WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH BETWEEN 6 AM AND 8 AM
EDT. 

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

ROLFSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 3, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		2 hr

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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.