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Freeze Warning 7, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

October 9, 20098 counties in Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this freeze warning at Oct 9, 2009, 3:50 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 10, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
Oct 9, 2009, 3:50 PM EDT (19:50 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 10, 2009, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 10, 2009, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 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 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2009-10-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2009-10-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 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
819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 9, 4:24 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryGRR18 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Michigan, 2009Every freeze warning in 2009

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.