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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Marquette, MI

May 21, 20244 counties in Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this wind advisory at May 21, 2024, 2:03 PM CDT for 4 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 22, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 21, 2024, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
In effect from: May 22, 2024, 7:00 AM CDT
Expired: May 22, 2024, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 14 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 423 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 840 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this wind advisory went out at May 21, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 21, 1:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 8:35 PM CDT	Small Craft Advisory	MQT		67 hr
May 21, 3:22 AM CDT	Gale Warning	MQT		40 hr
May 21, 2:03 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	MQT	Houghton, Keweenaw	13 hr
May 21, 2:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MQT	Menominee	49 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.