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Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

June 16, 20216 counties in Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this fire weather watch at Jun 16, 2021, 11:44 AM EDT for 6 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jun 17, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 2021, 11:44 AM EDT (15:44 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 17, 2021, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 17, 2021, 9:12 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Counties Clare County, MI, Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 298 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2021-06-16Temperature 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2021-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 37 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
2157 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
101 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 fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jun 15, 7:33 PM EDT, 16 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:33 PM EDT, 16 hours 11 minutes before
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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.