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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Detroit, MI
NWS Detroit, MI issued this winter storm warning at Feb 16, 2022, 3:44 PM EST for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Feb 17, 2022, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for 12 hr. 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 16, 2022, 3:44 PM EST (20:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 17, 2022, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2022, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Detroit, MI
Counties Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 35 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1677 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 545 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 499 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Feb 16, 3:35 PM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 3:35 PM EST, 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Detroit, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 3:30 AM EST | Wind Advisory | DTX | Bay, Genesee, Huron, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston and 11 more | 17 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:30 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | DTX | Genesee, Lapeer, Lenawee, Livingston, Macomb, Monroe and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:44 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | Genesee, Lapeer, Sanilac, Shiawassee | 35 hr |
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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.