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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this freeze warning at Oct 11, 2014, 3:09 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 12, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Oct 11, 2014, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 12, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 12, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
Counties Bay County, MI, Huron County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Midland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Sanilac County, MI, Tuscola County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11, 3:09 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | Genesee, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland and 3 more | 17 hr |
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.