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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 10, 2016Chippewa County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2016, 6:05 PM EDT for Chippewa County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2016, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI

County Chippewa County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 169 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 352 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 10, 4:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:01 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
345 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2016

LHZ345>349-LMZ323-341-342-344>346-LSZ321-322-MIZ008-015>036-041-
042-111200-
STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITHIN 5 NM OF MACKINAC BRIDGE INCLUDING
MACKINAC ISLAND-ST IGNACE TO FALSE DETOUR CHANNEL-
5NM EAST OF MACKINAC BRIDGE TO PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT MI INCLUDING
BOIS BLANC ISLAND-
PRESQUE ISLE LIGHT TO STURGEON PT MI INCLUDING THUNDER BAY
NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY-STURGEON PT TO ALABASTER MI-
GRAND TRAVERSE BAY SOUTH OF A LINE GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHT TO
NORWOOD MI-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO 5NM WEST OF MACKINAC BRIDGE-
NORWOOD MI TO 5NM WEST OF MACKINAC BRIDGE INCLUDING LITTLE
TRAVERSE BAY-SLEEPING BEAR POINT TO GRAND TRAVERSE LIGHT MI-
POINT BETSIE TO SLEEPING BEAR POINT MI-
MANISTEE TO POINT BETSIE MI-
WHITEFISH BAY (U.S. PORTION)/WHITEFISH POINT TO POINT IROQUOIS MI-
ST. MARYS RIVER POINT IROQUOIS TO E. POTAGANNISSING BAY-CHIPPEWA-
MACKINAC-EMMET-CHEBOYGAN-PRESQUE ISLE-CHARLEVOIX-LEELANAU-ANTRIM-
OTSEGO-MONTMORENCY-ALPENA-BENZIE-GRAND TRAVERSE-KALKASKA-CRAWFORD-
OSCODA-ALCONA-MANISTEE-WEXFORD-MISSAUKEE-ROSCOMMON-OGEMAW-IOSCO-
GLADWIN-ARENAC-
345 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2016

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...
EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN...AND ADJACENT NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE
MICHIGAN...LAKE HURON AND LAKE SUPERIOR.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON IN EASTERN
UPPER MICHIGAN. THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TONIGHT ACROSS ALL OF
NORTHERN MICHIGAN. SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE WITH DAMAGING WINDS
AND LARGE HAIL...PRIMARILY BETWEEN 8 PM AND 3 AM. THERE IS A RISK
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALMOST ALL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN...
THOUGH THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM CHARLEVOIX TO
OSCODA.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE ON SATURDAY IN NORTHERN LOWER
MICHIGAN...MAINLY SOUTH OF M-32. SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.

ELEVATED FIRE DANGER WILL BE IN PLACE IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
SUNDAY...FOR LOW HUMIDITIES AND GUSTY WINDS.

THERE IS ALSO A CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.
SPOTTERS SHOULD ALWAYS PASS ON PERTINENT WEATHER REPORTS TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

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WEATHER.GOV/GAYLORD

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 6:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
605 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2016

MIZ008-015-102230-
MACKINAC-CHIPPEWA-
605 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2016

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT CHIPPEWA AND
NORTHEASTERN MACKINAC COUNTIES...

AT 603 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR LOWER TAHQUAMENON FALLS STATE PARK
TO 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RACO TO NEAR EAST LAKE. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT
35 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS...ALONG WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN.

LAT...LON 4677 8485 4666 8493 4660 8493 4653 8481
      4656 8468 4646 8455 4645 8447 4651 8438
      4649 8427 4651 8424 4640 8414 4619 8408
      4615 8401 4606 8396 4606 8390 4587 8383
      4601 8494 4631 8489 4664 8524 4675 8524
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 282DEG 28KT 4670 8524 4631 8481 4607 8485

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:37 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	APX		19 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.