Alert archive / Michigan / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at Apr 8, 2012, 9:16 AM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 8, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Apr 8, 2012, 9:16 AM EDT (13:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 8, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Baraga County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:21 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 1804 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
636 WWUS83 KMQT 081316 RFWMQT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 916 AM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS INTO THIS EVENING... .ALTHOUGH LIGHT RAIN FELL ACROSS THE REGION LAST EVENING... TOTAL RAINFALL AVERAGED AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH OR LESS. STRONG WESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN. EXPECT TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S...WITH HUMIDITY VALUES BOTTOMING OUT AROUND 20 TO 30 PERCENT AFTER 1300. THE LOWEST HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED INLAND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. MIZ002-004-009>011-084-090100- /O.NEW.KMQT.FW.W.0002.120408T1600Z-120409T0100Z/ ONTONAGON-BARAGA-GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- 916 AM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 /816 AM CDT SUN APR 8 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 002 ONTONAGON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 004 BARAGA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 009 GOGEBIC...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 010 IRON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 011 DICKINSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 SOUTHERN HOUGHTON. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...AROUND 50. * IMPACTS...BURN RESTRICTIONS ARE LIKELY IN EFFECT. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BURN RESTRICTIONS...VISIT THE MICHIGAN DNR WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.MICHIGAN.GOV/BURNPERMIT...ALL LOWER CASE...OR BY CALLING 866-922-2876. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... WARM TEMPERATURES AND EXCEPTIONALLY DRY FUELS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS WILDLAND FIRE CONDITIONS. CAMPFIRES...OUTDOOR GRILLS...SMOKING MATERIALS...CHAIN SAWS...AND ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES ALL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO THROW A SPARK AND IGNITE A DANGEROUS AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. * PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$ KF
1 follow-up statement
729 WWUS83 KMQT 081716 RFWMQT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 116 PM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 ...CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS INTO THIS EVENING... .ALTHOUGH LIGHT RAIN FELL ACROSS THE REGION LAST EVENING...TOTAL RAINFALL AVERAGED AROUND A TENTH OF AN INCH OR LESS. STRONG WESTERLY WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON...PARTICULARLY ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN. EXPECT TEMPERATURES IN THE 50S...WITH HUMIDITY VALUES BOTTOMING OUT AROUND 20 TO 30 PERCENT. THE LOWEST HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED INLAND FROM LAKE SUPERIOR. MIZ002-004-009>011-084-090100- /O.CON.KMQT.FW.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120409T0100Z/ ONTONAGON-BARAGA-GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- 116 PM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 /1216 PM CDT SUN APR 8 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT /8 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN... * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 002 ONTONAGON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 004 BARAGA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 009 GOGEBIC...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 010 IRON...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 011 DICKINSON AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 084 SOUTHERN HOUGHTON. * WINDS...WEST 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 20 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE LOWER 50S. * IMPACTS...BURN RESTRICTIONS ARE IN EFFECT...WITH NO OPEN DEBRIS BURNING PERMITTED TODAY ACROSS UPPER MICHIGAN. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON BURN RESTRICTIONS...VISIT THE MICHIGAN DNR WEBSITE AT HTTP://WWW.MICHIGAN.GOV/BURNPERMIT...ALL LOWER CASE...OR BY CALLING 866-922-2876. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A RED FLAG WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR ARE IMMINENT. A COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS...VERY LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY... WARM TEMPERATURES AND EXCEPTIONALLY DRY FUELS WILL CREATE DANGEROUS WILDLAND FIRE CONDITIONS. CAMPFIRES...OUTDOOR GRILLS...SMOKING MATERIALS...CHAIN SAWS...AND ALL-TERRAIN VEHICLES ALL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO THROW A SPARK AND IGNITE A DANGEROUS AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. * PLEASE ADVISE THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OR FIRE CREWS IN THE FIELD OF THIS RED FLAG WARNING. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 11:38 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | MQT | Houghton, Keweenaw | 7 hr |
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.