Alert archive / Michigan / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at Apr 8, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2012, 11:38 AM EDT (15:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2012, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 15:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 297 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.
279 WWUS73 KMQT 081538 NPWMQT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 1138 AM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 ...STRONG WEST WINDS TO CONTINUE TODAY... .STRONG WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MID AFTERNOON...UNDER THE SHARP PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN LOW PRESSURE TO OUR NORTHWEST...AND STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE MID MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. EXPECT THE STRONG WINDS TO DIMINISH EARLY THIS EVENING AS BOTH SYSTEM WEAKEN AND MOVE FARTHER AWAY FROM OUR AREA. MIZ001-003-082300- /O.NEW.KMQT.WI.Y.0002.120408T1538Z-120408T2300Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 1138 AM EDT SUN APR 8 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * EXPECT WEST WINDS OF 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 45 MPH THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. THE STRONGEST WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN AND WESTWARD FACING SLOPES. IMPACTS... * THE STRONG WINDS WILL BLOW LOOSE OUTDOOR ITEMS AROUND EASILY. * DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. * THE STRONG WINDS MAY BLOW DOWN TREE LIMBS...LEADING TO SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT FREQUENT WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT && $$ KF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 9:16 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | MQT | Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Ontonagon | 12 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.