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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 3, 2012Clare County, Lake County, Osceola County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at May 3, 2012, 4:04 AM EDT for Clare County, Lake County, Osceola County, Michigan. It was in force for 71 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 3, 2012, 4:04 AM EDT (08:04 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 2012, 5:15 AM EDT
In force: 71 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Counties Clare County, MI, Lake County, MI, Osceola County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 86 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1790 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 3, 1:49 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 1:49 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 5:02 PM EDT, 11 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 3, 1:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 1:42 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 3, 2:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
255 AM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

MIZ037>040-043>046-052-030815-
CLARE-GRATIOT-ISABELLA-LAKE-MASON-MECOSTA-NEWAYGO-OCEANA-OSCEOLA-
255 AM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

AT 251 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18 MILES WEST OF
PENTWATER TO 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BIG RAPIDS TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF
MOUNT PLEASANT TO 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALMA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL...WINDS AROUND 30 MPH...OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  TROY TWP...           BITELY...             ST. LOUIS...
  HOME TWP...           GRANT TWP...          CHIPPEWA LAKE...
  PARIS...              SUMMIT TWP...         SHEPHERD...
  LAFAYETTE TWP...      HAWKINS...            BARRYTON...
  LOGAN TWP...          BEAL CITY...          WEIDMAN...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

&&

LAT...LON 4407 8652 4418 8639 4416 8461 4347 8460
      4347 8436 4314 8436 4314 8479 4349 8482
      4361 8549 4370 8651 4380 8644
TIME...MOT...LOC 0654Z 219DEG 29KT 4380 8676 4368 8540
          4350 8480 4315 8437

NJJ

Special weather statement, May 3, 4:04 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
404 AM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

MIZ037>040-030915-
CLARE-LAKE-MASON-OSCEOLA-
404 AM EDT THU MAY 3 2012

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...

AT 400 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 26 MILES NORTHWEST
OF BALDWIN TO 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF REED CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS GREATER THAN 30 MPH...FREQUENT
CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...ARE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS. DOPPLER RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND 2.5 INCHES IN THREE
HOURS HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR SCOTTVILLE. SOME MINOR FLOODING IS
POSSIBLE.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  NEWKIRK TWP...        IRONS...              LEROY...
  EVART...              BRISTOL...            HARTWICK TWP...
  TUSTIN...             SYLVAN TWP...         ORIENT TWP...
  SEARS...              DIGHTON...            MIDDLE BRANCH TWP...
  MARION...             FREEMAN TWP...        LAKE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

GUSTY WINDS MAY CAUSE SMALL OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH BINS TO BLOW
AROUND. STAY AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS OUTDOORS SUCH AS TREES. SEEK
SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

&&

LAT...LON 4416 8463 4414 8461 4383 8460 4382 8643
      4412 8645 4418 8639 4418 8631
TIME...MOT...LOC 0802Z 257DEG 35KT 4417 8619 4400 8557

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 1:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Muskegon, Oceana	66 min
May 3, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Lake, Mason, Oceana	78 min
May 3, 2:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clare, Gratiot, Isabella, Lake, Mason, Mecosta and 1 more	80 min
May 3, 4:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clare, Osceola	66 min
May 3, 4:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Lake, Mason	63 min
May 3, 5:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clare, Isabella, Lake, Mecosta, Osceola	60 min
May 3, 5:42 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Lake, Mason, Osceola	10 hr
May 3, 6:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare, Isabella, Lake, Mecosta, Newaygo, Osceola	67 min
May 3, 7:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clare, Osceola	65 min
May 3, 8:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Lake	4 hr
May 3, 10:22 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more	22 hr
May 3, 10:56 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Ingham	58 hr
May 3, 10:56 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Mason	5 days
May 3, 10:56 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	GRR	Osceola	6 days
May 3, 11:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Mason	51 min
May 3, 12:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Lake	64 min
May 3, 12:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Mason	6 hr
May 3, 12:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		41 min
May 3, 12:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Lake	6 hr
May 3, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Mason	41 min
May 3, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Lake	52 min
May 3, 1:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Newaygo	19 min
May 3, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Osceola	57 min
May 3, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Oceana	63 min
May 3, 3:01 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Osceola	5 hr
May 3, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Newaygo	43 min
May 3, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		82 min
May 3, 3:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Clare, Gratiot, Isabella, Kent, Mecosta, Montcalm and 3 more	115 min
May 3, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	54 min
May 3, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Mecosta	54 min
May 3, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Isabella	38 min
May 3, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		59 min
May 3, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Muskegon	52 min
May 3, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan, Barry	44 min
May 3, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Kent, Newaygo, Ottawa	41 min
May 3, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Barry, Clinton, Eaton, Ionia	60 min
May 3, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Barry, Calhoun, Kalamazoo	56 min
May 3, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton, Gratiot, Ionia, Montcalm	54 min
May 3, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton, Eaton, Ingham	60 min
May 3, 6:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Clinton	16 hr
May 3, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		119 min
May 3, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham	45 min

Nearby

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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.