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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at Mar 27, 2016, 8:04 PM EDT for Ingham County, Jackson County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 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 27, 2016, 8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 1777 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Mar 27, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 27, 3:25 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 27, 4:26 AM EDT, 15 hours 38 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 426 AM EDT SUN MAR 27 2016 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-280830- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 426 AM EDT SUN MAR 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY TONIGHT MOSTLY NEAR AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 69. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL ARE EXPECTED WITH THE STRONGEST OF THESE STORMS. LOCALIZED FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AREAS WITH POOR DRAINAGE IS POSSIBLE DUE TO LOCALLY HEAVY DOWN POURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY A STRONG STORM MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES MAY BRING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY. AN ARCTIC FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA SATURDAY WILL LIKELY BRING SNOW SHOWERS...FALLING TEMPERATURES AND STRONG WINDS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LMZ844>849-280830- 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- 426 AM EDT SUN MAR 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINDS AND WAVES WILL BECOME HAZARDOUS TO SMALL WATER CRAFT LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WINDS AND WAVES WILL REMAIN HAZARDOUS FOR SMALL WATER CRAFT INTO MONDAY AFTERNOON. A STRONG STORM MOVING THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES WILL BRING STRONG WINDS THAT WILL RESULT IN HAZARDOUS WINDS AND WAVES WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AT THAT TIME TOO. THE ARCTIC FRONT WILL LIKELY BRING HAZARDOUS WINDS AND WAVES TO THE NEAR SHORE WATERS SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WDM
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Special weather statement, Mar 27, 7:20 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
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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.