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Beach Hazards Statement 20, NWS Marquette, MI

August 22, 2026Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 22, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT for Alger County, Marquette County, Michigan. It took effect at Aug 23, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2026, 9:45 PM EDT (01:45 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 23, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 23, 2026, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
14 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 01:48 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 00:00Z, 1.8 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 00:00Z on 2026-08-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 496 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2026-08-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -73 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
496 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
797 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.