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Freeze Warning 9, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

October 15, 202011 counties in Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this freeze warning at Oct 15, 2020, 1:47 PM EDT for 11 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Oct 16, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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, 2020, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 16, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 16, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Counties Barry County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Gratiot County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Montcalm County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 15, 11:06 AM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 15, 7:47 AM EDT, 6 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 15, 10:50 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRR		48 hr
Oct 15, 1:47 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Kalamazoo, Kent, Newaygo, Van Buren	19 hr
Oct 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Gale Watch	GRR		12 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Michigan, 2020 Every freeze warning in 2020

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.