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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this freeze warning at May 27, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 28, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
- May 27, 2008, 2:14 PM EDT (18:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 28, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 28, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Clare County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:18 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 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Isabella, Mecosta | 53 min |
| May 26, 8:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Isabella, Mecosta | 67 min |
| May 27, 2:11 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot and 9 more | 30 hr |
| May 27, 2:11 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | GRR | Clare, Isabella, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Newaygo and 2 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Michigan, 2008Every freeze warning in 2008
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.