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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

June 27, 2013Menominee County, Michigan

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2013-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2013-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 3:23 PM CDT, 4 minutes before
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In the hours before

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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 26, 7:14 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT2 hr
Jun 26, 8:01 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT89 min
Jun 27, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette52 min
Jun 27, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette49 min

Nearby

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.