Alert archive / Michigan / Lake Effect Snow Warnings in 2014
Lake Effect Snow Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this lake effect snow warning at Jan 22, 2014, 5:08 AM EST for 7 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 22, 2014, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for 25 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
- Jan 22, 2014, 5:08 AM EST (10:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 22, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2014, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 25 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake effect snow warning went out at Jan 22, 4:24 AM EST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 4:24 AM EST, 44 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 21, 4:27 PM EST, 12 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 427 PM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 MIZ001>006-009-084-221200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER- GOGEBIC-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- 427 PM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 /327 PM CST TUE JAN 21 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY MODERATE TO HEAVY LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT OVER MUCH OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. THE HEAVIEST SNOW IS EXPECTED OVER MARQUETTE COUNTY LATE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL ALSO PRODUCE CONSIDERABLE BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW OVER MUCH OF THE AREA WITH OCCASIONAL WHITEOUT CONDITIONS AND DIFFICULT TRAVEL. SEE THE LATEST FORECAST AND WINTER WEATHER STATEMENT FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. WIND CHILLS WILL FALL TO NEAR 25 BELOW ZERO AT TIMES MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF UPPER MICHIGAN FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING...SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING...AND MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. MIZ007-010>014-085-221200- LUCE-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 427 PM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 /327 PM CST TUE JAN 21 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY WIND CHILLS WILL FALL TO NEAR 25 BELOW ZERO AT TIMES MAINLY OVER THE WESTERN INTERIOR OF UPPER MICHIGAN FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING...SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING...AND MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-221200- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 427 PM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 /327 PM CST TUE JAN 21 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY IS EXPECTED OVER MUCH OF LAKE SUPERIOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THE UPCOMING WEEKEND. NORTH TO NORTHEAST GALES TO 35 KNOTS ARE EXPECTED OVER MAINLY CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT...WITH WEST TO SOUTHWEST GALES OF 35 TO 40 KNOTS POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY AFTERNOON OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. NORTHWEST GALES OF 35 TO NEAR 45 KNOTS WILL THEN BE POSSIBLE OVER EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. SEE THE LATEST MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE AND LAKE SUPERIOR FORECASTS FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-221200- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 427 PM EST TUE JAN 21 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY SOUTHWEST GALES OF 35 TO 40 KNOTS ARE EXPECTED TOWARD THE OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN LATE THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. KF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 10:12 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | MQT | 10 days | |
| Jan 22, 5:08 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | MQT | Alger, Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Marquette, Ontonagon | 21 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:42 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | Dickinson, Iron | 18 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Michigan, 2014Every lake effect snow warning in 2014
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.