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Blizzard Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

January 22, 2026Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this blizzard warning at Jan 22, 2026, 5:12 PM EST for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 9 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: Jan 22, 2026, 5:12 PM EST (22:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2026, 2:31 AM EST
In force: 9 hr
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI

Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 473 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 931 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 100 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 198 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this blizzard warning 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 blizzard warning went out at Jan 22, 4:21 PM EST, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 4:21 PM EST, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 3:56 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 22, 11:15 AM EST, 5 hours 57 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Marquette MI
1115 AM EST Thu Jan 22 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0655 AM     Extreme Cold     Watersmeet              46.26N 89.18W
01/22/2026  M-20 F           Gogebic            MI   Mesonet

            Mesonet station MC070 Watersmeet MDOT.

0904 AM     Extreme Cold     1 ESE Trout Creek       46.48N 88.99W
01/22/2026  M-20 F           Houghton           MI   Mesonet

            Mesonet station MC028 Trout Creek MDOT.

0825 AM     Extreme Cold     3 WNW Mineral Hills     46.13N 88.70W
01/22/2026  M-22 F           Iron               MI   Mesonet

            Mesonet station DVI04715 Iron River.

0726 AM     Extreme Cold     1 W Wakefield           46.48N 89.95W
01/22/2026  M-24 F           Gogebic            MI   Mesonet

            Mesonet station MC026 Wakefield MDOT.

0631 AM     Extreme Cold     4 NW Bessemer           46.52N 90.12W
01/22/2026  M-27 F           Gogebic            MI   AWOS

            AWOS station KIWD Ironwood Airport.

&&

GS

Local storm report, Jan 22, 3:51 PM EST, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 2:10 AM EST	Extreme Cold Warning	MQT	Alger, Delta, Schoolcraft	56 hr

Nearby

Blizzard Warnings in Michigan, 2026 Every blizzard warning in 2026

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.