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Areal Flood Warning 4, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this areal flood warning at May 4, 2018, 3:03 PM EDT for Cheboygan County, Emmet County, Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2018, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2018, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Cheboygan County, MI, Emmet County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -107 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 598 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at May 3, 7:00 PM EDT, 20 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 3, 7:00 PM EDT, 20 hours 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 3, 3:16 PM EDT, 23 hours 47 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Gaylord MI 316 PM EDT Thu May 3 2018 LHZ345>349-LMZ323-341-342-344>346-LSZ321-322-MIZ008-015>036-041- 042-041215- Straits of Mackinac within 5 nm of Mackinac Bridge including Mackinac Island-St Ignace to False Detour Channel- 5NM East of Mackinac Bridge to Presque Isle Light MI including Bois Blanc Island- Presque Isle Light to Sturgeon Pt MI Including Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary-Sturgeon Pt to Alabaster MI- Grand Traverse Bay south of a line Grand Traverse Light to Norwood MI-Seul Choix Point to 5NM West of Mackinac Bridge- Norwood MI to 5NM West of Mackinac Bridge including Little Traverse Bay-Sleeping Bear Point to Grand Traverse Light MI- Point Betsie to Sleeping Bear Point MI- Manistee to Point Betsie MI- Whitefish Bay (U.S. Portion)/Whitefish Point to Point Iroquois MI- St. Marys River Point Iroquois to E. Potagannissing Bay-Chippewa- Mackinac-Emmet-Cheboygan-Presque Isle-Charlevoix-Leelanau-Antrim- Otsego-Montmorency-Alpena-Benzie-Grand Traverse-Kalkaska-Crawford- Oscoda-Alcona-Manistee-Wexford-Missaukee-Roscommon-Ogemaw-Iosco- Gladwin-Arenac- 316 PM EDT Thu May 3 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for northern Lower Michigan... eastern Upper Michigan...and adjacent nearshore waters of Lake Michigan...Lake Huron and Lake Superior. .DAY ONE...Tonight. A period of heavier rain and a few thunderstorms will swing up through northern lower Michigan later tonight into Friday morning. Severe storms are not expected. However, heavy rainfall might cause some localized ponding on area roadways. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Elevated fire danger is possible for portions of northern Michigan Saturday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not anticipated. && For more information visit http://weather.gov/gaylord.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:11 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Charlevoix | 4 hr |
| May 4, 10:58 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Emmet | 4 hr |
| May 4, 12:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Antrim | 3 hr |
| May 4, 2:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | APX | Charlevoix | 3 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2018Every areal flood warning in 2018
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.