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Beach Hazards Statement 15, NWS Marquette, MI

August 16, 2025Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 16, 2025, 10:07 PM EDT for Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan. It took effect at Aug 17, 2025, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 2025, 10:07 PM EDT (02:07 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 17, 2025, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 17, 2025, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Alger County, MI, Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:10 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2025-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 46 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2025-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-270 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1055 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
150 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 17, 3:46 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMQT14 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.