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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter storm watch at Dec 23, 2014, 4:50 PM EST for 14 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 24, 2014, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2014, 4:50 PM EST (21:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2014, 3:28 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 240 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
- 437 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 199 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 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, 4:17 PM EST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 4:17 PM EST, 33 minutes before
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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.