Alert archive / Michigan / Freeze Warnings in 2018
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2018, 2:58 PM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 16, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Oct 15, 2018, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 16, 2018, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 16, 2018, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 346 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
- 606 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze warning 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 freeze warning went out at Oct 15, 2:58 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 2:58 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 15, 3:53 AM EDT, 11 hours 5 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Grand Rapids MI 353 AM EDT Mon Oct 15 2018 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-160800- Mason-Lake-Osceola-Clare-Oceana-Newaygo-Mecosta-Isabella-Muskegon- Montcalm-Gratiot-Ottawa-Kent-Ionia-Clinton-Allegan-Barry-Eaton- Ingham-Van Buren-Kalamazoo-Calhoun-Jackson- 353 AM EDT Mon Oct 15 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of southwest Lower Michigan. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday A frost threat will exist several nights this week, and widespread freezing temperatures are expected inland from Lake Michigan on both Wednesday night and Saturday night. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed. LMZ844>849-160800- 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- 353 AM EDT Mon Oct 15 2018 This hazardous weather outlook is for portions of southwest Lower Michigan. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight Winds and waves will be hazardous to small craft and anyone on piers today and tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday Winds and waves will remain hazardous to small craft and anyone on piers most of the week. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation will not be needed.
Nearby
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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.