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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Marquette, MI

September 3, 20105 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at Sep 3, 2010, 4:17 AM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Sep 3, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2010, 4:17 AM EDT (08:17 UTC)
In effect from: Sep 3, 2010, 11:45 AM EDT
Expired: Sep 4, 2010, 5:08 AM EDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Alger County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI, Luce County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:16 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 917 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 149 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.3

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at Sep 3, 1:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 1:34 AM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 2, 8:02 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MQT		15 hr
Sep 3, 11:45 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	MQT	Alger, Keweenaw, Luce	14 hr
Sep 3, 5:39 PM EDT	Gale Warning	MQT		32 hr
Sep 3, 5:39 PM EDT	Storm Warning	MQT		8 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.