Alert archive / Michigan / Snow Advisories in 2008

Snow Advisory 3, NWS Northern Indiana

March 3, 2008Cass County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this snow advisory at Mar 3, 2008, 4:54 PM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It took effect at Mar 4, 2008, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 3, 2008, 4:54 PM EST (21:54 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 4, 2008, 2:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 5, 2008, 1:00 AM EST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

County Cass County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 294 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2008-03-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2008-03-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 331 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
424 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
331 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
381 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this snow advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before this snow advisory went out at Mar 3, 12:16 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 3, 12:16 PM EST, 4 hours 38 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 3, 6:31 AM EST, 10 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
631 AM EST MON MAR 3 2008

INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005-
015-016-024-025-041145-
LA PORTE-ST. JOSEPH IN-ELKHART-LAGRANGE-STEUBEN-NOBLE-DE KALB-STARKE-
PULASKI-MARSHALL-FULTON IN-KOSCIUSKO-WHITLEY-ALLEN IN-WHITE-CASS IN-
MIAMI-WABASH-HUNTINGTON-WELLS-ADAMS-GRANT-BLACKFORD-JAY-BERRIEN-
CASS MI-ST. JOSEPH MI-BRANCH-HILLSDALE-WILLIAMS-FULTON OH-DEFIANCE-
HENRY-PAULDING-PUTNAM-VAN WERT-ALLEN OH-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MICHIGAN CITY...LA PORTE...SOUTH BEND...
MISHAWAKA...ELKHART...GOSHEN...LAGRANGE...TOPEKA...ANGOLA...
KENDALLVILLE...LIGONIER...AUBURN...GARRETT...KNOX...NORTH JUDSON...
WINAMAC...FRANCESVILLE...PLYMOUTH...BREMEN...ROCHESTER...WARSAW...
WINONA LAKE...COLUMBIA CITY...SOUTH WHITLEY...FORT WAYNE...
MONTICELLO...BROOKSTON...LOGANSPORT...PERU...WABASH...
NORTH MANCHESTER...HUNTINGTON...BLUFFTON...OSSIAN...DECATUR...
BERNE...MARION...HARTFORD CITY...MONTPELIER...PORTLAND...NILES...
BENTON HARBOR...ST. JOSEPH...BUCHANAN...DOWAGIAC...CASSOPOLIS...
STURGIS...THREE RIVERS...COLDWATER...HILLSDALE...BRYAN...WAUSEON...
ARCHBOLD...DEFIANCE...NAPOLEON...PAULDING...ANTWERP...OTTAWA...
PANDORA...VAN WERT...DELPHOS...LIMA
631 AM EST MON MAR 3 2008 /531 AM CST MON MAR 3 2008/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OHIO...
NORTHERN INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THE FLOOD POTENTIAL IS RELATIVELY HIGH TODAY AND TONIGHT AS
MELTING SNOW COMBINES WITH RAINFALL TO CREATE EXCESS RUNOFF.
RENEWED FLOODING OF RIVERS...CREEKS AND LOW LYING AREAS IS
LIKELY.

FREEZING RAIN MAY PRODUCE SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION
TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM HARTFORD CITY TO
OTTAWA. THE FREEZING RAIN WILL ALSO BE ACCOMPANIED BY SLEET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A WINTRY MIX OF PRECIPITATION WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.
FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET ARE LIKELY OVER AREAS SOUTHEAST OF FORT
WAYNE WITH SNOW ELSEWHERE. ACCUMULATIONS OF ICE MAY APPROACH OR
EXCEED A QUARTER OF AN INCH. HEAVY ICE ACCUMULATION IS AGAIN
POSSIBLE SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM HARTFORD CITY TO OTTAWA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY FLOODING AND ICE JAMS...AS
WELL AS ANY SNOWFALL REPORTS.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX

LMZ043-046-041145-
NEW BUFFALO MI TO ST JOSEPH MI-MICHIGAN CITY IN TO NEW BUFFALO MI-
631 AM EST MON MAR 3 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN LAKE
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL PERSIST TODAY AND
TONIGHT AS SOUTH WINDS INCREASE TO AS HIGH AS 25 KNOTS AND WAVES
BUILD TO 4 TO 7 FEET.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT MUCH
OF THIS TIME PERIOD.

&&

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES...OR
CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/IWX/PROGRAMAREAS/MARINE/INDEX.PHP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 3, 10:41 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXCass, Miami, Wabash25 hr
Mar 3, 10:41 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXFulton, Kosciusko, Marshall, Pulaski, Starke4 days
Mar 3, 10:41 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXCarroll, Pulaski, White4 days
Mar 3, 10:49 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXAllen, DeKalb3 days
Mar 3, 4:54 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningIWXAdams, Allen, Blackford, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 15 more36 hr
Mar 3, 10:49 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXWilliams3 days
Mar 3, 10:49 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWXDefiance, Fulton, Williams6 days

Nearby

Snow Advisories in Michigan, 2008Snow Advisories in Indiana, 2008Every snow advisory 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.