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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

January 10, 201723 counties in Michigan

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2017-01-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 2017-01-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 296 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 9, 8:56 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRKent12 days
Jan 9, 8:56 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRAllegan5 days
Jan 9, 8:56 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRIonia24 days
Jan 9, 8:56 PM ESTRiver Flood AdvisoryGRRKent7 days
Jan 10, 11:00 AM ESTRiver Flood WatchGRROttawa48 hr
Jan 10, 2:24 PM ESTWind AdvisoryGRRAllegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Clinton, Eaton and 17 more13 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.