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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI

February 6, 2021Saint Clair County, Michigan

NWS Detroit, MI issued this areal flood warning at Feb 6, 2021, 3:30 PM EST for Saint Clair County, Michigan. It was in force for 13 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 6, 2021, 3:30 PM EST (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Feb 19, 2021, 3:00 PM EST
In force
13 days
Issued by
NWS Detroit, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Saint Clair County, MI

The radar

The Detroit radar (KDTX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:30 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 323 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2021-02-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2021-02-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 186 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
239 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 areal flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Detroit, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood warning went out at Feb 6, 12:09 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 12:09 PM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 5, 7:09 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryDTX9 hr
Feb 5, 8:47 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementDTXGenesee58 min
Feb 5, 10:05 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementDTXGenesee, Lapeer70 min
Feb 6, 3:39 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryDTX15 hr
Feb 6, 10:03 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryDTXSaint Clair5 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Michigan, 2021Every areal flood warning 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.