Alert archive / Michigan / High Wind Watches in 2017
High Wind Watch 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this high wind watch at Jan 10, 2017, 3:30 AM EST for 23 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 10, 2017, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 10, 2017, 3:30 AM EST (08:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 10, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 10, 2017, 2:24 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
All 23 counties
Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clare County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Van Buren County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:32 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 10, 3:21 AM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 3:21 AM EST, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 2:05 PM EST, 13 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 205 PM EST MON JAN 9 2017 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-101915- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 205 PM EST MON JAN 9 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE THIS EVENING AND CONTINUE OVERNIGHT. ACCUMULATIONS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES ARE POSSIBLE... WITH LOCALLY UP TO SIX INCHES POSSIBLE NORTH OF US HIGHWAY 10. THE SNOW WILL BECOME MIXED WITH FREEZING RAIN AND SLEET TOWARD SUNRISE. TRAVEL IMPACTS MAY DEVELOP...ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING COMMUTE TUESDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE MIXTURE OF WINTER PRECIPITATION WILL GRADUALLY CHANGE TO ALL RAIN TUESDAY MORNING AS WARMER AIR MOVES INTO THE REGION. ADDITIONAL CHANCES OF MIXED WINTER PRECIPITATION ARE POSSIBLE LATER WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY AND AGAIN LATER SUNDAY INTO MONDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ844>849-101915- 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- 205 PM EST MON JAN 9 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONDITIONS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO MARINERS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY CONDITIONS WILL BE HAZARDOUS TO SMALL CRAFT TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... MWS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 8:56 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 12 days |
| Jan 9, 8:56 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan | 5 days |
| Jan 9, 8:56 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ionia | 24 days |
| Jan 9, 8:56 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 7 days |
| Jan 10, 11:00 AM EST | River Flood Watch | GRR | Ottawa | 48 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:24 PM EST | Wind Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more | 13 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Michigan, 2017Every high wind watch in 2017
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.