Alert archive / Michigan / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 18, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this freeze warning at Sep 26, 2012, 3:47 PM EDT for Clare County, Lake County, Osceola County, Michigan. It took effect at Sep 27, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Sep 26, 2012, 3:47 PM EDT (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 27, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 27, 2012, 8:07 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Clare County, MI, Lake County, MI, Osceola County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 1024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this freeze warning went out at Sep 26, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 26, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 26, 8:38 AM EDT, 7 hours 9 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 838 AM EDT WED SEP 26 2012 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-270800- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 838 AM EDT WED SEP 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FROST AND FREEZING TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED NORTH OF INTERSTATE 96 TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY FROST IS EXPECTED THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ844>849-270800- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI- 838 AM EDT WED SEP 26 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WDM OSTUNO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 26, 3:47 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | GRR | Gratiot, Isabella, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm, Newaygo and 1 more | 16 hr |
| Sep 26, 7:11 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 13 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Michigan, 2012Every freeze warning in 2012
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.