Alert archive / Michigan / High Wind Watches in 2015
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this high wind watch at Nov 11, 2015, 4:49 AM EST for 12 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Nov 12, 2015, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 11, 2015, 4:49 AM EST (09:49 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 12, 2015, 5:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 11, 2015, 3:26 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:49 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 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Nov 11, 4:00 AM EST, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 4:00 AM EST, 49 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 10, 5:26 AM EST, 23 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 526 AM EST TUE NOV 10 2015 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-111030- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 526 AM EST TUE NOV 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WINDS DEVELOP WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND LAST THROUGH FRIDAY AS A FAIRLY IMPRESSIVE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE GREAT LAKES. WIND GUSTS OF 35 TO 50 MPH OR GREATER ARE LIKELY FOR MANY HOURS...WHICH MAY LEAD TO SOME POWER OUTAGES ACROSS THE REGION. THE HIGHEST GUSTS WILL LIKELY OCCUR ALONG THE LAKE SHORE BUT EVEN INLAND WILL EXPERIENCE THE STRONG WINDS. GUSTY WINDS CONTINUE INTO FRIDAY THOUGH A BIT LESS THAN WHAT OCCURS THURSDAY. STILL...WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR GREATER ARE POSSIBLE EVEN INTO FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR WIND AND DAMAGE REPORTS WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. LMZ844>849-111030- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI- 526 AM EST TUE NOV 10 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY LAKE MICHIGAN WILL TURN QUITE HAZARDOUS LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND PERSIST THROUGH FRIDAY WITH GALE OR STORM CONDITIONS EXPECTED. WAVES OF 10 TO 15 FEET OR GREATER ARE EXPECTED FOR MOST OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS. WHILE THE PEAK OF THIS EVENT WILL OCCUR ON THURSDAY...GALES WILL PROBABLY CONTINUE RIGHT INTO FRIDAY. THE DURATION OF HIGH WAVE ACTION MAY LEAD TO SOME BEACH AND DUNE EROSION. ALSO...THERE IS A RISK FOR SOME COASTAL FLOODING TO OCCUR GIVEN THE ELEVATED LAKE LEVELS...PRIMARILY AT RIVER MOUTHS EMPTYING INTO THE LAKE AND ALSO FOR AREAS DIRECTLY ADJACENT TO THE WATER. PIERS AND BOARDWALKS WILL BE LIFE THREATENING IN THESE TYPES OF CONDITIONS AS WAVE ACTION WILL OVERTOP THESE STRUCTURES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FOR WIND AND DAMAGE REPORTS WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. HOVING
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 11, 3:45 AM EST | Gale Warning | GRR | 12 hr | |
| Nov 11, 3:45 AM EST | Storm Warning | GRR | 36 hr | |
| Nov 11, 3:58 AM EST | Lakeshore Flood Warning | GRR | Allegan, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Van Buren | 36 hr |
| Nov 11, 3:26 PM EST | High Wind Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham and 9 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 11, 3:26 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more | 36 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.