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Beach Hazards Statement 11, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 20, 2015, 6:45 AM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Aug 20, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 21 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2015, 6:45 AM EDT (10:45 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 20, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 21, 2015, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 21 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1043 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
125 WHUS43 KAPX 201045 CFWAPX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 645 AM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 MIZ016-019>021-025-031-201845- /O.NEW.KAPX.BH.S.0011.150820T1200Z-150821T0900Z/ EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE-MANISTEE- 645 AM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT. * HAZARDS...DANGEROUS CURRENTS...GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES. * TIMING...TODAY AND TONIGHT * LOCATION...LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES OF NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SWIM RISK MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$ SMD
2 follow-up statements
090 WHUS43 KAPX 201504 CFWAPX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1104 AM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 MIZ016-019>021-025-031-210900- /O.CON.KAPX.BH.S.0011.000000T0000Z-150821T0900Z/ EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE-MANISTEE- 1104 AM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * HAZARDS...DANGEROUS CURRENTS...GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES. * TIMING...TODAY AND TONIGHT * LOCATION...LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES OF NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SWIM RISK MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$
087 WHUS43 KAPX 201946 CFWAPX COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 346 PM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 MIZ016-019>021-025-031-210900- /O.CON.KAPX.BH.S.0011.000000T0000Z-150821T0900Z/ EMMET-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-BENZIE-MANISTEE- 346 PM EDT THU AUG 20 2015 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... * HAZARDS...DANGEROUS CURRENTS...GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES. * TIMING...THROUGH TONIGHT * LOCATION...LAKE MICHIGAN BEACHES OF NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH SWIM RISK MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$
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.