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Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this winter storm warning at Dec 8, 2008, 1:34 PM EST for 5 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 8, 2008, 8:00 PM EST. It was in force for 26 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
- Dec 8, 2008, 1:34 PM EST (18:34 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 8, 2008, 8:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2008, 9:50 PM EST
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
Counties Bay County, MI, Huron County, MI, Midland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Tuscola County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:35 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Dec 8, 12:01 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 8, 12:01 PM EST, 1 hour 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 8, 4:03 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | DTX | 26 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.