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Wind Chill Advisory 4, NWS Marquette, MI

January 12, 2017Gogebic County, Iron County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 12, 2017, 2:16 PM CST for Gogebic County, Iron County, Michigan. It took effect at Jan 12, 2017, 10:00 PM CST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2017, 2:16 PM CST (20:16 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2017, 10:00 PM CST
Expired: Jan 13, 2017, 10:00 AM CST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Gogebic County, MI, Iron County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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 wind chill advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind chill advisory went out at Jan 12, 12:34 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 12:34 PM CST, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 12, 3:39 AM CST, 10 hours 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 12, 8:23 AM CST, 5 hours 53 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 12, 9:35 AM CST, 4 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 12, 11:17 AM CST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1217 PM EST THU JAN 12 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0825 AM     SNOW             1 SE CHATHAM            46.33N 86.92W
01/12/2017  M6.0 INCH        ALGER              MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL WITH 0.29 INCHES OF LIQUID.
            MOST OF THE SNOW FELL DURING THE MORNING TO
            EARLY EVENING OF 1/11. CURRENT SNOW DEPTH IS
            13 INCHES.

0800 AM     SNOW             1 S CASPIAN             46.06N 88.63W
01/12/2017  M3.5 INCH        IRON               MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL WITH 0.17 INCHES OF LIQUID.
            MOST OF THE SNOW FELL DURING THE MORNING AND
            AFTERNOON OF 1/11. CURRENT SNOW DEPTH IS 21
            INCHES.

0800 AM     SNOW             2 WNW IRONWOOD          46.47N 90.18W
01/12/2017  M3.0 INCH        GOGEBIC            MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL. MOST OF THE SNOW FELL
            DURING THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON OF 1/11.

0700 AM     SNOW             2 SSW ESCANABA          45.72N 87.10W
01/12/2017  M3.0 INCH        DELTA              MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL. MOST OF THE SNOW FELL
            DURING THE MORNING AND AFTERNOON OF 1/11.

0800 AM     SNOW             1 S ONTONAGON           46.86N 89.31W
01/12/2017  M2.0 INCH        ONTONAGON          MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL. MOST OF THE SNOW FELL
            DURING THE MORNING TO EARLY EVENING OF 1/11.
            CURRENT SNOW DEPTH IS 18 INCHES.

0800 AM     SNOW             2 SE HERMAN             46.65N 88.33W
01/12/2017  M2.0 INCH        BARAGA             MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL WITH 0.15 INCHES OF LIQUID.
            MOST OF THE SNOW FELL DURING THE MORNING AND
            AFTERNOON OF 1/11. CURRENT SNOW DEPTH IS 22
            INCHES.

0800 AM     SNOW             8 N MASS CITY           46.87N 89.10W
01/12/2017  M1.8 INCH        ONTONAGON          MI   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24 HOUR SNOWFALL. MOST OF THE SNOW FELL
            DURING THE MORNING THROUGH EARLY EVENING OF
            1/11.

&&

KLUBER

Local storm report, Jan 12, 1:18 PM CST, 58 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
218 PM EST THU JAN 12 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0153 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 56 NNW FREDA            47.87N 89.31W
01/12/2017  M59 MPH          LSZ263             MI   BUOY

            PEAK GUST SO FAR TODAY AT ROCK OF AGES ON
            ISLE ROYALE.

&&

KLUBER

Local storm report, Jan 12, 1:55 PM CST, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
255 PM EST THU JAN 12 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0254 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST FREDA                   47.14N 88.82W
01/12/2017  M51 MPH          HOUGHTON           MI   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEAK WIND GUST THIS AFTERNOON.

&&

KLUBER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 2:37 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	MQT	Houghton, Keweenaw	21 hr
Jan 12, 4:48 AM CST	Small Craft Advisory	MQT		26 hr

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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.