Alert archive / Michigan / Red Flag Warnings in 2012
Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at Apr 23, 2012, 1:35 PM EDT for 4 counties in Michigan. 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
- Apr 23, 2012, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Delta County, MI, Luce County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 2634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
278 WWUS83 KMQT 231735 RFWMQT URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 135 PM EDT MON APR 23 2012 ...VERY DRY AND BREEZY THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY EVENING... MIZ006>008-013>015-085-240000- /O.NEW.KMQT.FW.W.0004.120423T1735Z-120424T0000Z/ ALGER-LUCE-CHIPPEWA-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-MACKINAC- NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 135 PM EDT MON APR 23 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR EASTERN 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 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 006 ALGER...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 007 LUCE...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 008 CHIPPEWA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 013 DELTA...FIRE WEATHER ZONE 014 SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT... FIRE WEATHER ZONE 015 MACKINAC AND FIRE WEATHER ZONE 085 NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT. * WINDS...NORTH 10 TO 20 MPH WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AS LOW AS 15 PERCENT. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 40S TO MID 50S. * IMPACTS...BURN RESTRICTIONS ARE 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. && $$ JLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:03 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 38 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.