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Wind Advisory 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this wind advisory at Jan 1, 2011, 11:16 AM EST for 5 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 1, 2011, 11:16 AM EST (16:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:18 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 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 113 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
337 WWUS73 KAPX 011616 NPWAPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1116 AM EST SAT JAN 1 2011 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT CROSSED THE AREA EARLIER THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED...ESPECIALLY ACROSS EXPOSED AREAS NEAR THE GREAT LAKES. MIZ008-015-016-019>021-025-031-020000- /O.NEW.KAPX.WI.Y.0001.110101T1616Z-110102T0000Z/ CHIPPEWA-MACKINAC-EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE- MANISTEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SAULT STE. MARIE...ST. IGNACE... PETOSKEY...CHARLEVOIX...NORTHPORT...MANCELONA...FRANKFORT... MANISTEE 1116 AM EST SAT JAN 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. IMPACTS... * STRONG CROSS WINDS COULD MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT AT TIMES THIS AFTERNOON...ESPECIALLY ALONG US-2 IN MACKINAC COUNTY...US-31 BETWEEN MANISTEE AND PETOSKEY...M-22 IN LEELANAU COUNTY...M-119 IN EMMET COUNTY...AND M-134 BETWEEN ST. IGNACE AND DRUMMOND ISLAND. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO EARLY EVENING...WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 50 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JPB
1 follow-up statement
778 WWUS73 KAPX 012122 NPWAPX URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 422 PM EST SAT JAN 1 2011 ...STRONG WIND GUSTS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON... .STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY EVENING IN THE WAKE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THAT CROSSED THE AREA EARLIER THIS MORNING. WIND GUSTS OF 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED... ESPECIALLY ACROSS EXPOSED AREAS NEAR THE GREAT LAKES. WINDS WILL SUBSIDE LATER THIS EVENING. MIZ008-015-016-019>021-025-031-020000- /O.CON.KAPX.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-110102T0000Z/ CHIPPEWA-MACKINAC-EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE- MANISTEE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SAULT STE. MARIE...ST. IGNACE... PETOSKEY...CHARLEVOIX...NORTHPORT...MANCELONA...FRANKFORT... MANISTEE 422 PM EST SAT JAN 1 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING... A WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST THIS EVENING. IMPACTS... * STRONG CROSS WINDS COULD MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT AT TIMES THIS EVENING... ESPECIALLY ALONG US-2 IN MACKINAC COUNTY...US-31 BETWEEN MANISTEE AND PETOSKEY...M-22 IN LEELANAU COUNTY...M- 119 IN EMMET COUNTY...AND M-134 BETWEEN ST. IGNACE AND DRUMMOND ISLAND. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * SUSTAINED SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED INTO EARLY EVENING...WITH GUSTS APPROACHING 50 MPH. WIND GUSTS WILL SUBSIDE TO BELOW 40 MPH LATER THIS EVENING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ JPB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:15 AM EST | Gale Warning | APX | 24 hr | |
| Jan 1, 3:15 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | APX | 13 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.