Alert archive / Michigan / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this wind advisory at Oct 3, 2014, 9:10 AM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 3, 2014, 9:10 AM EDT (13:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 3, 2014, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Allegan County, MI, Mason County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:09 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 470 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -240 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
213 WWUS73 KGRR 031310 NPWGRR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 910 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 MIZ037-043-050-056-064-071-031800- /O.NEW.KGRR.WI.Y.0003.141003T1310Z-141003T1800Z/ MASON-OCEANA-MUSKEGON-OTTAWA-ALLEGAN-VAN BUREN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LUDINGTON...HART...MUSKEGON...JENISON... HOLLAND...SOUTH HAVEN 910 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH THIS MORNING INTO THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS THE WIND WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS AFTERNOON...BUT REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THE NIGHT. * THE STRONG FALL STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POWERFUL WIND GUSTS WAS OVER MINNESOTA THIS MORNING IMPACTS... * SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES * HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY TRAVELLING ON NORTH SOUTH ROADWAYS AND INTERSTATES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. * WEATHER PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON LINE AT HTTP://GO.USA.GOV/5OG. && $$
1 follow-up statement
742 WWUS73 KGRR 031437 NPWGRR URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1037 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 MIZ037-043-050-056-064-071-031800- /O.CON.KGRR.WI.Y.0003.000000T0000Z-141003T1800Z/ MASON-OCEANA-MUSKEGON-OTTAWA-ALLEGAN-VAN BUREN- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LUDINGTON...HART...MUSKEGON...JENISON... HOLLAND...SOUTH HAVEN 1037 AM EDT FRI OCT 3 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... HAZARDOUS WEATHER... * WIND GUSTS OVER 45 MPH THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON THEN DIMINISHING BY LATE AFTERNOON...BUT REMAIN GUSTY THROUGH THE NIGHT. * THE STRONG FALL STORM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POWERFUL WIND GUSTS WAS OVER MINNESOTA THIS MORNING IMPACTS... * SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES * HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES MAY HAVE DIFFICULTY TRAVELLING ON NORTH SOUTH ROADWAYS AND INTERSTATES. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... * WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. * WEATHER PREPAREDNESS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE ON LINE AT HTTP://GO.USA.GOV/5OG. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 30 min |
| Oct 2, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 39 min |
| Oct 2, 11:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton | 46 min |
| Oct 3, 4:08 AM EDT | Gale Warning | GRR | 11 hr | |
| Oct 3, 10:56 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Kalamazoo, Kent, Ottawa, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Oct 3, 3:31 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 62 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.