Alert archive / Michigan / High Wind Watches in 2014
High Wind Watch 3, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this high wind watch at Dec 23, 2014, 3:22 PM EST for 13 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Dec 24, 2014, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 23, 2014, 3:22 PM EST (20:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2014, 5:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 24, 2014, 4:05 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
Counties Genesee County, MI, Huron County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Sanilac County, MI, Tuscola County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 375 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
- 466 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Dec 23, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 23, 12:48 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 23, 3:58 AM EST, 11 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI 358 AM EST TUE DEC 23 2014 MIZ047>049-053>055-060>063-068>070-075-076-082-083-240900- MIDLAND-BAY-HURON-SAGINAW-TUSCOLA-SANILAC-SHIAWASSEE-GENESEE-LAPEER- ST. CLAIR-LIVINGSTON-OAKLAND-MACOMB-WASHTENAW-WAYNE-LENAWEE-MONROE- 358 AM EST TUE DEC 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THE TREND FOR LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT IS STRONGER AND FARTHER WEST. THE ADDITIONAL WARM AIR AND MOISTURE WILL BRING WITH IT A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY EVENING. THE STRONGER SOLUTION HAS ALSO INCREASED THE WIND THREAT...WITH SOUTHWEST GUSTS OF 40 TO 45 MPH EXPECTED WEDNESDAY EVENING...WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR HIGHER WINDS. ON THE FLIP SIDE...THE PROSPECTS FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW HAVE DIMINISHED...WITH ACCUMULATIONS OF LESS THAN 1 INCH ANTICIPATED WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. LCZ460-LEZ444-LHZ361>363-421-422-441>443-462>464-240900- LAKE ST. CLAIR- MICHIGAN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE FROM DETROIT RIVER TO NORTH CAPE MI- LAKE HURON FROM 5NM EAST OF MACKINAC BRIDGE TO PRESQUE ISLE LT BEYOND 5 NM OFF SHORE- LAKE HURON FROM PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT TO STURGEON POINT MI BEYOND 5NM OFF SHORE- LAKE HURON FROM STURGEON POINT TO ALABASTER MI BEYOND 5NM OFF SHORE- OUTER SAGINAW BAY SW OF ALABASTER TO PORT AUSTIN MI TO INNER SAGINAW BAY-INNER SAGINAW BAY SW OF POINT AU GRES TO BAY PORT MI- PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH MI-HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC MI- PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON MI- LAKE HURON FROM PORT AUSTIN TO HARBOR BEACH BEYOND 5NM OFF SHORE- LAKE HURON FROM HARBOR BEACH TO PORT SANILAC BEYOND 5NM OFF SHORE- LAKE HURON FROM PORT SANILAC TO PORT HURON BEYOND 5NM OFF SHORE- 358 AM EST TUE DEC 23 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ERIE...LAKE HURON AND LAKE ST CLAIR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES ARE IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE HURON...REFER TO THE MARINE FORECASTS FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO EARLY WEDNESDAY EVENING ACROSS SOUTHERN LAKE HURON...LAKE ST CLAIR...AND LAKE ERIE. GALE WATCHES ARE IN EFFECT FOR ALL MARINE ZONES WEDNESDAY EVENING INTO THURSDAY...REFER TO THE MARINE FORECASTS FOR DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. YOU CAN OBTAIN YOUR LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECASTS ONLINE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/DETROIT (ALL LOWER CASE). SF
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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.