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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this red flag warning at May 14, 2026, 1:38 PM EDT for 5 counties in Michigan. It took effect at May 15, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- May 14, 2026, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2026, 1:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2026, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
Counties Baraga County, MI, Gogebic County, MI, Houghton County, MI, Iron County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 413 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2066 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:08 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 49 hr | |
| May 14, 4:12 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 36 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.