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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at Mar 24, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Michigan. It was in force for 59 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
- Mar 24, 2016, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Calhoun County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 719 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 710 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 24, 3:25 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 24, 3:25 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 24, 4:34 AM EDT, 11 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-250845- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT FREEZING RAIN AND ADDITIONAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE EXPECTED NORTH OF M-57 TODAY. SCATTERED POWER OUTAGES ARE ONGOING AND MORE MAY OCCUR TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY RIVER LEVELS MAY RESUME RISING THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH SOME MINOR IMPACTS POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SNOWFALL REPORTS ARE APPRECIATED. LMZ844>849-250845- 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- 434 AM EDT THU MAR 24 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS BOATING CONDITIONS FOR SMALL CRAFT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 24, 1:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
100 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1249 PM ICE STORM EDMORE 43.41N 85.04W
03/24/2016 MONTCALM MI PUBLIC
TWO LARGE BRANCHES OF OAK TREE BROKEN DUE TO
ICE
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EBWLocal storm report, Mar 24, 2:16 PM EDT, 2 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
216 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0119 PM ICE STORM 2 W BUTTERNUT 43.18N 84.96W
03/24/2016 MONTCALM MI TRAINED SPOTTER
SNAPPED POWER POLE ALONG M-57
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EBWSpecial weather statement, Mar 24, 3:21 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
321 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016
MIZ071-072-242015-
VAN BUREN MI-KALAMAZOO MI-
321 PM EDT THU MAR 24 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY...
AT 318 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF GUSTY SHOWERS
ALONG A COLD FRONT MOVING INTO VAN BUREN AND KALAMAZOO COUNTIES.
MEASURED WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 45 MPH HAVE BEEN OBSERVED ALONG THIS
LINE AS WINDS SHIFT ABRUPTLY FROM THE SOUTH TO THE NORTHWEST.
WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WITH SOME DOWNED TREE LIMBS WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
KALAMAZOO... PORTAGE... PAW PAW...
EASTWOOD... WESTWOOD... VICKSBURG...
HARTFORD... GALESBURG... MATTAWAN...
LAWTON... BANGOR... DECATUR...
SCHOOLCRAFT... CLIMAX... RICHLAND...
GREATER GALESBURG... SOUTH GULL LAKE... COMSTOCK NORTHWEST...
ALAMO... PINE GROVE...
LAT...LON 4207 8621 4210 8622 4224 8622 4225 8625
4242 8588 4242 8530 4207 8529
TIME...MOT...LOC 1918Z 239DEG 36KT 4207 8612
HOVINGLocal storm report, Mar 24, 3:45 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 10:16 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 48 hr |
| Mar 24, 10:16 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ingham | 4 days |
| Mar 24, 10:16 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Barry | 7 days |
| Mar 24, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Kalamazoo | 54 min |
| Mar 24, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Barry | 62 min |
| Mar 24, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Ingham, Jackson | 57 min |
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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.