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Beach Hazards Statement 21, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 20, 2020, 3:08 PM EDT for Schoolcraft County, Michigan. It took effect at Sep 21, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 20, 2020, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 21, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 21, 2020, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
County Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 1540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
196 WHUS43 KMQT 201908 CFWMQT Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Marquette MI 308 PM EDT Sun Sep 20 2020 MIZ014-211200- /O.NEW.KMQT.BH.S.0021.200921T0900Z-200922T0000Z/ Southern Schoolcraft- 308 PM EDT Sun Sep 20 2020 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected due to high wave action and strong rip currents. * WHERE...Southern Schoolcraft County. * WHEN...From late tonight through Monday evening. * IMPACTS...High wave action and dangerous currents will lead to life threatening swimming conditions. Waves in rapid succession can tire swimmers quickly. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Current related fatalities and rescues in the past have occurred due to similar wave conditions at locations listed below: For Southern Schoolcraft County: Near Lakeview Park and Seul Choix Point. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
1 follow-up statement
335 WHUS43 KMQT 210833 CFWMQT Coastal Hazard Message National Weather Service Marquette MI 433 AM EDT Mon Sep 21 2020 MIZ014-220000- /O.CON.KMQT.BH.S.0021.200921T0900Z-200922T0000Z/ Southern Schoolcraft- 433 AM EDT Mon Sep 21 2020 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected due to high wave action and strong rip currents. * WHERE...Southern Schoolcraft County. * WHEN...Through this evening. * IMPACTS...High wave action and dangerous currents will lead to life threatening swimming conditions. Waves in rapid succession can tire swimmers quickly. * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Current related fatalities and rescues in the past have occurred due to similar wave conditions at locations listed below: For Southern Schoolcraft County: Near Lakeview Park and Seul Choix Point. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Remain out of the water to avoid hazardous swimming conditions. && $$
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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.