Alert archive / Michigan / Wind Advisories in 2012
Wind Advisory 7, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at Oct 4, 2012, 4:03 PM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It took effect at Oct 4, 2012, 10:23 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 4, 2012, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 4, 2012, 10:23 PM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 5, 2012, 3:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 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 20:05 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, 8.1 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
- 1233 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
595 WWUS73 KMQT 042003 NPWMQT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 403 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...STRONG WEST WINDS ON THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA FOR FRIDAY... MIZ001-003-050400- /O.NEW.KMQT.WI.Y.0007.121005T1100Z-121005T2200Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 403 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 6 PM EDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM TO 6 PM EDT FRIDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * WEST WINDS TO 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH MID FRIDAY AFTERNOON. * MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL BE DRIVEN BY THE WINDS RESULTING IN POOR VISIBILITY IN OPEN AREAS. IMPACTS... * LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN ABOUT. * DRIVING HIGHER PROFILE VEHICLES COULD BE DIFFICULT. SMALLER TREE LIMBS MAY BE DOWNED. 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 && $$ JLA
3 follow-up statements
892 WWUS73 KMQT 050223 NPWMQT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 1023 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...STRONG WEST WINDS ON THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA OVERNIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY AFTERNOON... MIZ001-003-051030- /O.EXT.KMQT.WI.Y.0007.121005T0223Z-121005T2200Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 1023 PM EDT THU OCT 4 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY NOW IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT FRIDAY... HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * WEST WINDS TO 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH MID AFTERNOON FRIDAY. * MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW DURING THE DAY FRIDAY WILL BE DRIVEN BY THE WINDS...RESULTING IN POOR VISIBILITY IN OPEN AREAS. IMPACTS... * THE STRONG WINDS MAY BREAK TREE LIMBS...LEADING TO SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES. * LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN ABOUT. * DRIVING HIGHER PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT FREQUENT WIND GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. * PREPARE...PLAN...AND STAY INFORMED. VISIT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT && $$ ROLFSON
545 WWUS73 KMQT 050832 NPWMQT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 432 AM EDT FRI OCT 5 2012 ...STRONG WEST WINDS ON THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON... MIZ001-003-052200- /O.CON.KMQT.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-121005T2200Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 432 AM EDT FRI OCT 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * WEST WINDS TO 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS TO 50 MPH. * THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THROUGH MID AFTERNOON. * A WIND DRIVEN MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL RESULT IN POOR VISIBILITY IN OPEN AREAS. IMPACTS... * THE STRONG WINDS MAY BREAK TREE LIMBS...LEADING TO SPORADIC POWER OUTAGES. * LOOSE OUTDOOR OBJECTS WILL BE BLOWN ABOUT. * DRIVING HIGHER PROFILE VEHICLES MAY BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES. 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 && $$ KF
177 WWUS73 KMQT 051944 NPWMQT URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 344 PM EDT FRI OCT 5 2012 MIZ001-003-052045- /O.CAN.KMQT.WI.Y.0007.000000T0000Z-121005T2200Z/ KEWEENAW-NORTHERN HOUGHTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...COPPER HARBOR...HOUGHTON...HANCOCK 344 PM EDT FRI OCT 5 2012 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... A FEW GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...BUT THE STRONGEST WINDS HAVE ENDED PROMPTING THE WIND ADVISORY TO BE CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA TONIGHT. && $$ MRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 4, 4:40 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 8 days | |
| Oct 4, 9:43 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | Alger, Delta, Luce, Schoolcraft | 3 hr |
| Oct 4, 9:47 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 4 hr |
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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.