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Wind Chill Advisory 6, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 18, 201523 counties in Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this wind chill advisory at Feb 18, 2015, 12:28 PM EST for 23 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Feb 18, 2015, 8:00 PM EST. It was in force for 38 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 18, 2015, 12:28 PM EST (17:28 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2015, 8:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 20, 2015, 10:10 AM EST
In force: 38 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

All 23 counties

Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clare County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Feb 17, 4:32 PM EST, 19 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 4:32 PM EST, 19 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 17, 9:37 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Kalamazoo, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa and 1 more	45 hr
Feb 18, 12:28 PM EST	Wind Chill Warning	GRR	Clare, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham, Ionia and 4 more	23 hr
Feb 18, 12:28 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	GRR	Allegan, Van Buren	31 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Michigan, 2015 Every wind chill advisory in 2015

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.