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Beach Hazards Statement 29, NWS Marquette, MI

September 13, 2026Alger County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 13, 2026, 1:40 AM EDT for Alger County, Michigan. It took effect at Sep 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 13, 2026, 1:40 AM EDT (05:40 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 13, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Sep 13, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI

County Alger County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:45 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 356 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 2026-09-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 750 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2026-09-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
750 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
2.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this beach hazards statement 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 beach hazards statement went out at Sep 12, 7:37 PM EDT, 6 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 12, 7:37 PM EDT, 6 hours 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 13, 1:56 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryMQTBaraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron, Ontonagon31 hr
Sep 13, 3:18 AM EDTGale WatchMQT25 hr
Sep 13, 3:18 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryMQT17 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.