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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at Jun 6, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT for Lake County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 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 6, 2016, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 6, 2016, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Lake County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1539 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 Jun 6, 7:32 AM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 7:32 AM EDT, 6 hours 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 6, 1:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 149 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2016 MIZ038-044-061830- LAKE MI-NEWAYGO MI- 149 PM EDT MON JUN 6 2016 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... AT 148 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR BALDWIN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HALF INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS AT LEAST 40 MPH WITH SOME DOWNED TREE LIMBS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHEASTERN NEWAYGO...SOUTHEASTERN LAKE...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: NIRVANA... HAWKINS...CHASE AND IDLEWILD. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 15 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. && LAT...LON 4376 8556 4376 8590 4393 8590 4394 8556 TIME...MOT...LOC 1748Z 271DEG 32KT 4384 8579 JAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 57 min | |
| Jun 5, 8:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Lake, Mason, Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana | 83 min |
| Jun 5, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Kent, Lake, Mecosta, Newaygo, Osceola, Ottawa | 60 min |
| Jun 5, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 56 min | |
| Jun 5, 9:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 59 min | |
| Jun 6, 11:02 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 88 min | |
| Jun 6, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Clare | 49 min |
| Jun 6, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Osceola | 39 min |
| Jun 6, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clare, Osceola | 34 min |
| Jun 6, 2:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Allegan | 53 min |
| Jun 6, 3:14 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 28 hr | |
| Jun 6, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Barry | 45 min |
| Jun 6, 3:49 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | GRR | Allegan, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Van Buren | 28 hr |
| Jun 6, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 2 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.