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Wind Advisory 6, NWS Marquette, MI

October 25, 20136 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at Oct 25, 2013, 2:44 PM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 25, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 19 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 25, 2013, 2:44 PM EDT (18:44 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 25, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 26, 2013, 4:08 PM EDT
In force
19 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Alger County, MI, Delta County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI, Luce County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 2013-10-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2013-10-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
0 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 24, 10:25 PM EDTGale WarningMQT46 hr
Oct 25, 4:21 AM EDTGale WarningMQT40 hr
Oct 25, 10:42 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMQT11 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.