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Beach Hazards Statement 21, NWS Marquette, MI

September 5, 2021Alger County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 5, 2021, 5:48 AM EDT for Alger County, Michigan. It took effect at Sep 5, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 5, 2021, 5:48 AM EDT (09:48 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 5, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 5, 2021, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI

County Alger County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2021-09-05Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2021-09-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -111 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

521 
WHUS43 KMQT 050948
CFWMQT

Coastal Hazard Message
National Weather Service Marquette MI
548 AM EDT Sun Sep 5 2021

MIZ006-060100-
/O.NEW.KMQT.BH.S.0021.210905T1200Z-210906T0100Z/
Alger-
548 AM EDT Sun Sep 5 2021

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING...

* WHAT...Dangerous swimming conditions are expected due to high 
  wave action and strong rip currents.

* WHERE...Alger 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 Alger County: The Au Train River mouth at Au Train, the
exposed regions of Grand Marais Harbor, and Pictured Rocks
National Lakeshore.

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.