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Special Weather Statement, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 8, 2024Oceana County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this special weather statement at Feb 8, 2024, 10:48 PM EST for Oceana County, Michigan. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 8, 2024, 10:48 PM EST (03:48 UTC)
Expired: Feb 8, 2024, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Oceana County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 8, 8:10 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	GRR		52 min
Feb 8, 8:32 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	GRR		43 min
Feb 8, 8:38 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Van Buren	52 min
Feb 8, 9:09 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Ottawa	36 min
Feb 8, 9:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Van Buren	32 min
Feb 8, 9:24 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	GRR		96 min
Feb 8, 9:29 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Barry, Kalamazoo	46 min
Feb 8, 9:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Van Buren	60 min
Feb 8, 9:59 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	GRR		46 min
Feb 8, 10:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Barry, Kalamazoo, Kent, Ottawa, Van Buren	61 min
Feb 8, 11:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Mecosta, Montcalm, Newaygo	61 min
Feb 8, 11:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Gratiot, Ingham and 3 more	91 min

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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.