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Winter Weather Advisory 5, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 16, 2016, 3:21 AM EST for 15 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 16, 2016, 3:14 PM EST. It was in force for 63 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 16, 2016, 3:21 AM EST (08:21 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 16, 2016, 3:14 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2016, 5:46 AM EST
- In force
- 63 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Antrim County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 16, 2:53 AM EST, 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 16, 2:53 AM EST, 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 16, 2:59 AM EST, 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 259 AM EST SAT JAN 16 2016 LHZ345>349-LMZ323-341-342-344>346-LSZ321-322-MIZ008-015>036-041-042- 171200- STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITHIN 5NM 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 POINT 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- 259 AM EST SAT JAN 16 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT. COLDER AIR PUSHING INTO THE REGION WILL BRING ACCUMULATING LAKE EFFECT SNOW TO THE REGION TODAY AND TONIGHT. HEAVIEST OF THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW IS EXPECTED TONIGHT...BRINGING SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO PARTS OF NORTHWEST LOWER AND EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN. SEE ONGOING ADVISORIES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE INTO SUNDAY AND MONDAY...WITH ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS EXPECTED FOR THE TYPICAL SNOWBELT REGIONS. SEE ONGOING ADVISORIES FOR FURTHER DETAILS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. REPORTS MAY BE MADE ONE OF THREE WAYS: ONLINE: WEATHER.GOV/GAYLORD FACEBOOK: FACEBOOK.COM/NWSGAYLORD TWITTER: TWITTER.COM/NWSGAYLORD && FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT WEATHER.GOV/GAYLORD.
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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.