Alert archive / Michigan / Red Flag Warnings in 2013
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at May 15, 2013, 2:36 AM EDT for 11 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 15, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 15, 2013, 2:36 AM EDT (06:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2013, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Baraga County, MI, Delta County, MI, Dickinson County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:39 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 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 2117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 801 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.