Alert archive / Michigan / Beach Hazards Statements in 2017
Beach Hazards Statement 13, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 23, 2017, 3:56 AM EDT for Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 17 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2017, 3:56 AM EDT (07:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2017, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 17 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
296 WHUS43 KMQT 230756 CFWMQT COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 356 AM EDT WED AUG 23 2017 MIZ005-006-240100- /O.NEW.KMQT.BH.S.0013.170823T0756Z-170824T0100Z/ MARQUETTE-ALGER- 356 AM EDT WED AUG 23 2017 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT FOR DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS, WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * HIGH WAVE ACTION AND DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE SHORELINES OF UPPER MICHIGAN. * STRONG RIP CURRENTS: EXPECTED. * STRONG OUTLET CURRENTS: EXPECTED. LOCATIONS/IMPACTS FOR ALGER COUNTY: CURRENT RELATED FATALITIES AND RESCUES IN THE PAST HAVE OCCURRED DURING WAVE CONDITIONS SIMILAR TO TODAY NEAR THE AU TRAIN RIVER MOUTH AT AU TRAIN, THE EXPOSED REGIONS OF GRAND MARAIS HARBOR, AND THE PICTURED ROCKS NATIONAL LAKESHORE. FOR MARQUETTE COUNTY: CURRENT RELATED FATALITIES AND RESCUES IN THE PAST HAVE OCCURRED DURING WAVE CONDITIONS SIMILAR TO TODAY IN MIDDLE BAY NORTH OF PRESQUE ISLE AND AT LITTLE PRESQUE ISLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DANGEROUS POUNDING WAVES AND LIFE-THREATENING CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED AT THE BEACHES. PEOPLE VISITING THE BEACHES SHOULD STAY OUT OF THE WATER. PAY ATTENTION TO BEACH FLAGS AND SIGNS POSTED AT BEACH ACCESS POINTS AND LIFEGUARD STATIONS. DANGEROUS CURRENTS CAN SWEEP YOU OUT AWAY FROM SHORE. THEY OCCUR MOST OFTEN AT BREAKS OR LOW SPOTS IN SANDBARS, NEAR SHORELINE STRUCTURES, AND NEAR RIVER MOUTHS OR OTHER WATER OUTLETS. && $$ RITZMAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 4:20 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 17 hr | |
| Aug 23, 3:06 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | Baraga, Dickinson, Houghton, Iron, Marquette | 18 hr |
Nearby
Beach Hazards Statements in Michigan, 2017Every beach hazards statement 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.