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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Northern Indiana

January 6, 2022Cass County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this winter storm warning at Jan 6, 2022, 4:04 AM EST for Cass County, Michigan. It took effect at Jan 6, 2022, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 24 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
Jan 6, 2022, 4:04 AM EST (09:04 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 6, 2022, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 7, 2022, 4:00 PM EST
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana

County Cass County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 332 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 2022-01-06Temperature 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2022-01-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 5, 10:41 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryIWX41 hr
Jan 6, 4:04 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryIWXElkhart36 hr

Nearby

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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.