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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Marquette, MI

June 7, 20238 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at Jun 7, 2023, 8:29 PM EDT for 8 counties in Michigan. It took effect at Jun 8, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT. 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
Jun 7, 2023, 8:29 PM EDT (00:29 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 8, 2023, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 8, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
12 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, Menominee County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:30 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 317 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2023-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 8 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2023-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 76 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.