Alert archive / Michigan / Red Flag Warnings in 2023
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at May 18, 2023, 5:05 AM EDT for 7 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 18, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 18, 2023, 5:05 AM EDT (09:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Alger County, MI, Chippewa County, MI, Delta County, MI, Luce County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 2360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.