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Lakeshore Flood Advisory 3, NWS Gaylord, MI

March 11, 2021Charlevoix County, Emmet County, Leelanau County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this lakeshore flood advisory at Mar 11, 2021, 3:09 AM EST for Charlevoix County, Emmet County, Leelanau County, Michigan. It took effect at Mar 11, 2021, 5:00 AM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 11, 2021, 3:09 AM EST (08:09 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 11, 2021, 5:00 AM EST
Expired: Mar 11, 2021, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI

Counties Charlevoix County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Leelanau County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:13 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 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 232 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: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lakeshore flood advisory 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 lakeshore flood advisory went out at Mar 10, 6:00 PM EST, 9 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 6:00 PM EST, 9 hours 9 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
Mar 11, 2:20 AM EST	Wind Advisory	APX	Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Benzie, Charlevoix and 19 more	16 hr
Mar 11, 2:06 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	APX		7 hr

Nearby

Lakeshore Flood Advisories in Michigan, 2021 Every lakeshore flood advisory in 2021

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.