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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this winter storm warning at Mar 16, 2026, 7:56 AM EDT for Lake County, Mason County, Oceana County, Michigan. It was in force for 19 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
- Mar 16, 2026, 7:56 AM EDT (11:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 17, 2026, 2:37 AM EDT
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Counties Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI, Oceana County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 257 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1550 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 447 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 751 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Mar 16, 6:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 6:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 11:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson | 89 min |
| Mar 16, 3:27 AM EDT | Storm Warning | GRR | 17 hr | |
| Mar 16, 11:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 4 days |
| Mar 16, 11:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GRR | Newaygo | 62 hr |
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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.