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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this winter storm warning at Mar 24, 2023, 3:36 PM EDT for 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Mar 25, 2023, 4:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 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
- Mar 24, 2023, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 25, 2023, 4:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 1825 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 4:11 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | GRR | Lake, Mason, Oceana | 11 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:36 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | GRR | Clare, Isabella, Mecosta, Montcalm, Muskegon, Newaygo and 1 more | 28 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Gale Watch | GRR | 6 hr | |
| Mar 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 19 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.