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Lakeshore Flood Statement 7, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this lakeshore flood statement at Aug 7, 2008, 4:04 AM EDT for Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan. It took effect at Aug 7, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2008, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 7, 2008, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2008, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1900 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 4:24 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 25 hr |
Nearby
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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.