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Winter Storm Warning 14, NWS Gaylord, MI

November 26, 2019Chippewa County, Mackinac County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this winter storm warning at Nov 26, 2019, 4:13 PM EST for Chippewa County, Mackinac County, Michigan. It took effect at Nov 27, 2019, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 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: Nov 26, 2019, 4:13 PM EST (21:13 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 27, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 27, 2019, 6:43 PM EST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI

Counties Chippewa County, MI, Mackinac County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 325 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: 867 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Nov 26, 3:54 PM EST, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 3:54 PM EST, 19 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 4:10 AM EST	Wind Advisory	APX	Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Emmet, Mackinac, Presque Isle	31 hr
Nov 26, 4:23 AM EST	Gale Warning	APX		43 hr
Nov 26, 4:23 AM EST	Storm Warning	APX		33 hr
Nov 26, 12:51 PM EST	Lakeshore Flood Warning	APX	Alcona, Alpena, Arenac, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa and 3 more	30 hr
Nov 26, 4:13 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	APX	Chippewa, Mackinac	27 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in Michigan, 2019 Every winter storm warning in 2019

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.