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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter storm watch at Apr 4, 2017, 4:05 PM EDT for 16 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Apr 6, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2017, 4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 6, 2017, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 5, 2017, 3:37 PM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
Counties Alcona County, MI, Alpena County, MI, Arenac County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Gladwin County, MI, Iosco County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montmorency County, MI, Ogemaw County, MI, Oscoda County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Presque Isle County, MI, Roscommon County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 302 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
- 603 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -40 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 storm watch 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 storm watch went out at Apr 4, 3:52 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 4, 3:52 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Gaylord MI 343 AM EDT Tue Apr 4 2017 LHZ345>349-LMZ323-341-342-344>346-LSZ321-322-MIZ008-015>036-041- 042-051200- 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- 343 AM EDT Tue Apr 4 2017 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. Runoff from last nights and todays expected rains may result in minor river flooding on the Rifle River near Sterling tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Another storm system will approach the Great Lakes Wednesday night into Thursday. Confidence is still low, but this system has the potential to produce accumulating wet snow across parts of the area. Gale force wind gusts are likely on portions of Lakes Michigan and Huron later Wednesday night through Thursday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report rainfall amounts 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 http://weather.gov/gaylord. MSB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 4, 11:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 47 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 10:48 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | APX | Arenac | 3 days |
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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.