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Beach Hazards Statement 11, NWS Marquette, MI

July 17, 2026Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Jul 17, 2026, 2:46 PM EDT for Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan. It took effect at Jul 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 2026, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jul 18, 2026, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
16 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 18:47 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 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 397 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 12:00Z on 2026-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2026-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 1:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTDelta39 min
Jul 17, 3:05 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMQT31 hr
Jul 17, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT21 min
Jul 17, 6:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT59 min
Jul 17, 7:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT37 min
Jul 17, 7:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTAlger61 min

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.