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Winter Storm Warning 5, NWS Marquette, MI

January 28, 20199 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this winter storm warning at Jan 28, 2019, 2:54 PM EST for 9 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jan 29, 2019, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 45 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: Jan 28, 2019, 2:54 PM EST (19:54 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 29, 2019, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 31, 2019, 4:29 AM EST
In force: 45 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Alger County, MI, Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI, Luce County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 242 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: 581 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 804 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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Jan 27, 6:54 PM EST, 20 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 6:54 PM EST, 20 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 28, 4:01 AM EST	Gale Warning	MQT		3 days
Jan 28, 2:54 PM EST	Wind Chill Warning	MQT	Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron and 3 more	69 hr
Jan 28, 2:54 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	MQT	Baraga, Delta, Houghton, Marquette, Schoolcraft	52 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.