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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at Jan 11, 2017, 5:32 PM EST for Barry County, Michigan. It was in force for 88 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
- Jan 11, 2017, 5:32 PM EST (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2017, 7:00 PM EST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
County Barry County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 297 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
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 90 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 465 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 Jan 11, 3:30 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 3:30 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 441 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-120830- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 441 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW AND FREEZING RAIN MAY IMPACT TRAVEL THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS AREAS NORTH OF A LINE FROM HART TO MOUNT PLEASANT. THE THREAT WILL MOVE SOUTH TO I-96 AND I-94 AFTER MIDNIGHT. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 96. AREAS OF FOG WILL BE LIKELY SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 96 THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ844>849-120830- 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- 441 PM EST WED JAN 11 2017 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WINDS AND WAVES WILL POSE A HAZARD TO MARINERS ON LAKE MICHIGAN THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORM WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE WILL BE NEAR AND SOUTH OF MUSKEGON. AREAS OF FOG WILL BE LIKELY SOUTH OF MUSKEGON THROUGH THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OSTUNO NJJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 11, 5:16 PM EST, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 10:44 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent | 7 days |
| Jan 10, 10:44 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ingham | 7 days |
| Jan 10, 10:44 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Ingham | 6 days |
| Jan 10, 10:44 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Mason | 5 days |
| Jan 11, 2:59 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 16 hr | |
| Jan 11, 8:29 AM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 35 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:01 PM EST | River Flood Warning | GRR | Clinton | 3 days |
| Jan 11, 2:05 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | GRR | Clare, Isabella, Lake, Mason, Mecosta, Montcalm and 4 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 11, 5:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 89 min |
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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.