Alert archive / Michigan / Beach Hazards Statements in 2013
Beach Hazards Statement 8, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 2, 2013, 9:13 AM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2013, 9:13 AM EDT (13:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2013, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:13 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
667 WHUS43 KAPX 021313 CFWAPX LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 913 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 MIZ016-019>021-025-031-022115- /O.NEW.KAPX.BH.S.0008.130902T1313Z-130903T0300Z/ EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE-MANISTEE- 913 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HIGH WAVE ACTION AND DANGEROUS SHORELINE CURRENTS EXPECTED. * LOCATION...BEACHES WITH PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS TODAY INCLUDE... THE LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... INCLUDING GRAND TRAVERSE BAY PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE SURE OF YOUR SWIMMING ABILITY. CHILDREN SHOULD NOT ENTER THE WATER UNSUPERVISED AND WITHOUT A CERTIFIED FLOTATION DEVICE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND SIGNS POSTED NEAR BEACH ACCESS POINTS AND LIFEGUARD STATIONS. HIGH WAVE ACTION ALONE CAN MAKE SWIMMING DIFFICULT ON DAYS SUCH AS THIS. INCOMING WAVES IN RAPID SUCCESSION CAN TIRE A SWIMMER QUICKLY. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN SANDBARS. RIP CURRENTS CAN SWEEP YOU OUT LAKEWARD. && $$ WEATHER.GOV/GAYLORD
1 follow-up statement
457 WHUS43 KAPX 021445 CFWAPX LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1045 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 MIZ016-019>021-025-031-022245- /O.CON.KAPX.BH.S.0008.000000T0000Z-130903T0300Z/ EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE-MANISTEE- 1045 AM EDT MON SEP 2 2013 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * HIGH WAVE ACTION AND DANGEROUS SHORELINE CURRENTS EXPECTED. * LOCATION...BEACHES WITH PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS TODAY INCLUDE... THE LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... INCLUDING GRAND TRAVERSE BAY PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... BE SURE OF YOUR SWIMMING ABILITY. CHILDREN SHOULD NOT ENTER THE WATER UNSUPERVISED AND WITHOUT A CERTIFIED FLOTATION DEVICE. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WHEN IN OR NEAR THE WATER. PAY ATTENTION TO FLAGS AND SIGNS POSTED NEAR BEACH ACCESS POINTS AND LIFEGUARD STATIONS. HIGH WAVE ACTION ALONE CAN MAKE SWIMMING DIFFICULT ON DAYS SUCH AS THIS. INCOMING WAVES IN RAPID SUCCESSION CAN TIRE A SWIMMER QUICKLY. RIP CURRENTS ARE POWERFUL CHANNELS OF WATER FLOWING QUICKLY AWAY FROM SHORE...WHICH OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT LOW SPOTS OR BREAKS IN SANDBARS. RIP CURRENTS CAN SWEEP YOU OUT LAKEWARD. && $$ WEATHER.GOV/APX
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.