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Lake Effect Snow Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

January 1, 2011Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this lake effect snow warning at Jan 1, 2011, 4:31 PM EST for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It took effect at Jan 1, 2011, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 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: Jan 1, 2011, 4:31 PM EST (21:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 1, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 2, 2011, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 24 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Jan 1, 12:25 PM EST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 12:25 PM EST, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 1, 4:20 PM EST, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jan 1, 10:33 AM EST, 5 hours 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1033 AM EST SAT JAN 1 2011

MIZ001-003-011700-
KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK
1033 AM EST SAT JAN 1 2011

...SOME HEAVY SNOW SHOWERS LATE THIS MORNING...

EXPECT SNOW SHOWERS TO FALL HEAVY AT TIMES LATE THIS MORNING AND
REDUCE VISIBILITY AS LOW AS ONE QUARTER MILE IN SOME PLACES AS A
STRONG ARCTIC COLD FRONT CROSSES NORTHWEST UPPER MICHIGAN. UP TO AN
INCH OR TWO OF SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE BY NOON. THE SNOW SHOWERS WILL
DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON...BUT SOUTHWEST WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH WILL
CAUSE BLOWING SNOW AND RESTRICTED VISIBILITY AT TIMES. PLAN ON
HEAVIER SNOW SHOWERS TO DEVELOP AGAIN THIS EVENING AS THE WIND SHIFTS
MORE TO THE WEST.

KC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 1, 4:40 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	MQT	Houghton, Keweenaw	12 hr
Jan 1, 5:09 AM EST	Heavy Freezing Spray Warning	MQT		32 hr
Jan 1, 9:37 AM EST	Wind Advisory	MQT	Delta, Luce, Schoolcraft	10 hr
Jan 1, 11:10 AM EST	Gale Warning	MQT		26 hr
Jan 1, 4:31 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	MQT	Ontonagon	12 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan, 2011 Every lake effect snow warning in 2011

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.