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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this winter storm watch at Dec 18, 2012, 4:01 PM EST for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 20, 2012, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 18, 2012, 4:01 PM EST (21:01 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2012, 4:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 19, 2012, 5:10 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Delta County, MI, Luce County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Dec 18, 12:45 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 12:45 PM EST, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 3:53 PM EST, 8 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 353 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012 MIZ005>007-012>014-085-191200- MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 353 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012 /253 PM CST TUE DEC 18 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON WEDNESDAY...AND PUSH ACROSS LOWER MICHIGAN THURSDAY EVENING. AT THIS TIME...LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED OVER THE AREA...WITH 2 TO 6 INCHES OF SNOW FROM THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING. LOCALIZED HIGHER AMOUNTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST UPDATED FORECAST FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. MIZ001>004-009>011-084-191200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-GOGEBIC-IRON- DICKINSON-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- 353 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012 /253 PM CST TUE DEC 18 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A STORM SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD OUT OF THE SOUTHERN PLAINS ON WEDNESDAY...AND PUSH ACROSS LOWER MICHIGAN THURSDAY EVENING. MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW OVER 6 INCHES...AND BLOWING SNOW...WILL BE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...WITH ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT LAKE ENHANCED SNOW CONTINUING ACROSS THE HIGHER TERRAIN NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR INTO FRIDAY. PLEASE VIEW THE LATEST FORECAST AND WINTER WEATHER PRODUCT FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-191200- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 353 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012 /253 PM CST TUE DEC 18 2012/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NORTH GALES TO 40 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING OVER MUCH OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. PLEASE VIEW THE LATEST OPEN WATER FORECAST OR MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-191200- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 353 PM EST TUE DEC 18 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NORTH GALES TO 35 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY. PLEASE VIEW THE LATEST NEARSHORE MARINE FORECAST OR MARINE WEATHER STATEMENT FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 18, 3:55 PM EST | Gale Watch | MQT | 13 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Watches in Michigan, 2012Every winter storm watch in 2012
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.