Alert archive / Michigan / Flood Watches in 2013
Flood Watch 3, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this flood watch at Apr 16, 2013, 3:49 PM EDT for 22 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 18, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 28 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 2013, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 18, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2013, 4:22 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Flood severity
- None
All 22 counties
Alcona County, MI, Alpena County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Arenac County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Gladwin County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Iosco County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Ogemaw County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI, Roscommon County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 272 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
- 931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flood watch went out at Apr 16, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 3:45 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:05 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | APX | Wexford | 6 days |
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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.