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Special Weather Statement, NWS Gaylord, MI

August 3, 2022Charlevoix County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2022, 12:50 AM EDT for Charlevoix County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 2022, 12:50 AM EDT (04:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2022, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 50

County Charlevoix County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 213 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -445 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Aug 2, 10:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 2, 10:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 2, 10:08 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 3, 12:50 AM EDT, 0 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
Aug 2, 10:00 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	APX	Alcona, Alpena, Benzie, Charlevoix, Chippewa, Leelanau and 2 more	22 hr
Aug 3, 12:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		37 min
Aug 3, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		29 min
Aug 3, 1:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		27 min
Aug 3, 1:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Emmet	48 min
Aug 3, 2:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse	44 min
Aug 3, 3:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Benzie, Kalkaska, Manistee, Wexford	58 min
Aug 3, 3:31 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		29 min
Aug 3, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Chippewa, Mackinac	75 min
Aug 3, 8:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		84 min
Aug 3, 8:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Alcona, Alpena, Iosco, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Roscommon	60 min
Aug 3, 9:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		61 min
Aug 3, 9:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		54 min
Aug 3, 9:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Manistee, Wexford	44 min
Aug 3, 10:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Missaukee, Wexford	44 min
Aug 3, 10:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		66 min
Aug 3, 11:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Crawford, Kalkaska, Missaukee, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Roscommon	43 min
Aug 3, 11:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Alcona, Crawford, Iosco, Ogemaw, Oscoda, Roscommon	48 min
Aug 3, 11:52 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		69 min

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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.