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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this flash flood warning at Jun 27, 2013, 3:27 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2013, 3:27 PM CDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2013, 6:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Menominee County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 1217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 788 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 flash flood warning went out at Jun 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:50 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 155 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 MIZ001-271945- KEWEENAW- 155 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK IN KEWEENAW COUNTY UNTIL 345 PM EDT... AT 151 PM EDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 27 MILES NORTH OF WINDIGO TO 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINDIGO. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. PEOPLE ON ISLE ROYALE...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. IF ON THE WATERS NEAR ISLE ROYALE...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER IF POSSIBLE. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. DON'T BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM! STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. JLA
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:27 PM CDT, 2 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 227 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 MIZ005-006-271930- ALGER-MARQUETTE- 227 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR ALGER AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EDT... AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR HARVEY...OR NEAR MARQUETTE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ADDITIONAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM CARLSHEND IN MARQUETTE COUNTY TO NEAR CHATHAM AND TRAUNIK IN ALGER COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF DIME SIZE HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. PEOPLE IN EASTERN MARQUETTE AND WESTERN ALGER COUNTIES...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HARVEY AND MARQUETTE...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE STORM TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. JLA
Local storm report, Jun 27, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 2 hr | |
| Jun 26, 8:01 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 89 min | |
| Jun 27, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 52 min |
| Jun 27, 6:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 49 min |
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Flash Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2013Every flash flood warning in 2013
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.