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Winter Storm Watch 7, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter storm watch at Dec 24, 2013, 4:49 AM EST for Benzie County, Leelanau County, Manistee County, Michigan. It took effect at Dec 25, 2013, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 24, 2013, 4:49 AM EST (09:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 25, 2013, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2013, 2:57 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Benzie County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 576 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm watch went out at Dec 23, 11:07 PM EST, 5 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 11:07 PM EST, 5 hours 42 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 4:47 AM EST | Gale Watch | APX | 10 hr | |
| Dec 24, 4:47 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | APX | 35 hr | |
| Dec 24, 2:57 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | APX | 26 hr | |
| Dec 24, 2:57 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | Antrim, Benzie, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Grand Traverse and 7 more | 45 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.