Spring snowmelt caused minor flooding over portions of the Michigamme River from the 23rd into the 30th.
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Spring snowmelt caused minor flooding over portions of the Michigamme River from the 23rd into the 30th.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 23, 6:50 AM EST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 750 AM EDT WED APR 23 2008 UPDATED AVIATION SECTION FOR 12Z TAFS .DISCUSSION (510 AM EDT)... UPPER AIR PATTERN CONSISTS OF A BROAD 500 MB TROUGH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS AND UPPER GREAT LAKES AND A CLOSED 500 MB LOW OFF THE PACIFIC NW AND WEST COAST TROUGH. UPPER AIR PATTERN GRADUALLY EVOLVES TO A 500 MB RIDGE AFFECTING THE AREA TONIGHT WITH A TROUGH THEN MOVING IN FOR THU INTO THE WEEKEND WITH DIFFERENT SHORTWAVES AFFECTING THE AREA THROUGH THEN WITH A RIDGE BUILDING OFF TO THE EAST OF THE CWA THEN. NAM SHOWING SOME 850-500 MB Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE ON THU ALONG WITH DEEPER MOISTURE ARRIVING THEN WITH MORE MOISTURE AND DYNAMICS ARRIVING FRI AND FRI NIGHT. FOR TODAY...FOG WILL BURN OFF QUITE EARLY. ONE THING THAT MIGHT MESS UP TEMPERATURES WITH SUNNY SKIES AROUND IS SOME SMOKE FROM SOME FIRES WHICH WAS EVIDENT YESTERDAY OVER THE AREA ON SATELLITE ACROSS THE DAKOTAS. WITH SMOKE ALOFT IN THE AIR...THIS COULD END UP LOWERING HIGH TEMPERATURES A BIT. MIXING TO 850 MB GETS ME HIGHS OF AROUND 70 OR SO WHICH IS POSSIBLE WITH STRONG APRIL SUNSHINE. AIRMASS WILL DRY OUT QUITE A BIT TODAY WITH LOW DEW POINTS OVER THE DAKOTAS IN THE TEENS AND THIS DRY AIR WILL BE COMING ACROSS. WITH TEMPERATURES PRETTY HIGH...RH VALUES WILL DROP THIS AFTERNOON. IF NOT FOR RECENT SNOWCOVER...WET GROUND AND RECENT WET WEATHER...FIRE DANGER WOULD BE ELEVATED. LUCKILY ALSO...WINDS ARE NOT STRONG TODAY. WITH DRY AIR IN PLACE TONIGHT...THINK TEMPERATURES WILL GET QUITE COLD AND LOWERED THEM A BIT TONIGHT. OVERALL...DID NOT MAKE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE GOING FORECAST. PUSHED TIMING OF POPS BACK A BIT ON THU WITH SLOWER ARRIVAL OF DYNAMICS AND MOISTURE. WITH SLOWER TIMING...INCREASED TEMPERATURES A BIT AS WELL. && .HYDROLOGY... SEVERAL RIVERS ACROSS THE WESTERN HALF OF UPPER MICHIGAN ARE AT OR ABOVE FLOOD STAGE...INCLUDING THE STURGEON RIVER AT ALSTON AND CHASSELL...THE TRAP ROCK RIVER...THE MIDDLE BRANCH ESCANABA AT HUMBOLDT...AND THE MICHIGAMME RIVER AT WITCH LAKE. RIVER LEVELS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE FLOOD STAGE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS...DUE TO YESTERDAYS RAINFALL AND ANY REMAINING SNOW MELT IN THE BASINS. POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN LOOMS ON THE HORIZON FOR THU INTO FRI...ESPECIALLY OVER WESTERN UPR MI...AS SLOW MOVING FRONTAL SYSTEM AFFECTS THE AREA. ANY HEAVY RAIN WOULD AGGRAVATE ONGOING FLOODING ON THE RIVERS MENTIONED ABOVE...PRODUCE RISES ON OTHER RIVERS AND STREAMS...AND LEAD TO AT LEAST SOME FLOODING IN LOW-LYING AREAS. A FLOOD WATCH MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED...BUT WILL LET DAYSHIFT INVESTIGATE FURTHER. FOR CONTINUED UPDATES ON THE RIVERS... PLEASE SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENTS AND ANY FLOOD WATCHES OR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED. IN ADDITION...FOR THE LATEST FORECAST PLEASE VISIT THE AHPS PAGE AND CLICK ON A RIVER SITE...THIS CAN BE FOUND UNDER THE RIVERS AND LAKES LINK AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/UP && .AVIATION (FOR THE 12Z TAF ISSUANCE)... DENSE GROUND FOG AT KSAW SHOULD MIX OUT QUICKLY THIS MORNING WITH ARRIVAL OF DRY AIR FROM THE WEST. OTHERWISE...CLEAR SKIES AND VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED AT BOTH SITES THROUGH TONIGHT. && .MARINE (FOR THE 4 AM LAKE SUPERIOR FORECAST ISSUANCE)... WINDS REMAIN LESS THAN 25 KNOTS UNTIL THURSDAY MORNING WHEN SOUTH WINDS INCREASE TO 30 KNOTS ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE PLAINS. SE GALE FORCE WINDS...PERHAPS AS STRONG AS 40 KNOTS...ARE EXPECTED OVER CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY AFTN INTO THURSDAY EVENING. SIGNIFICANT PRESSURE FALLS DEVELOPING NORTH OF THE LAKE THURSDAY AFTN WILL HELP BOOST THE WINDS DESPITE VERY STABLE TEMPERATURE PROFILE IN THE LOWEST LEVEL. AFTER THE FRONT CROSSES LAKE SUPERIOR ON FRIDAY...ANOTHER LOW MOVING UP ALONG THE FRONT IS EXPECTED TO LIFT INTO NORTHERN ONTARIO BY SATURDAY MORNING. NW WINDS TO 30 KNOTS ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THIS LOW BEFORE WINDS DECREASE LATE SATURDAY. && .MQT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FLOOD WARNING FOR THE MICHIGAMME RIVER NEAR WITCH LAKE FLOOD WARNING FOR THE MIDDLE BRANCH ESCANABA RIVER AT HUMBOLDT FLOOD WARNING FOR THE STURGEON RIVER NEAR ALSTON AND CHASSELL FLOOD WARNING FOR THE TRAP ROCK RIVER NEAR LAKE LINDEN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE CHOCOLAY RIVER NEAR HARVEY FLOOD ADVISORY FOR THE EAST BRANCH ESCANABA RIVER NEAR GWINN && HYDROLOGY...SRF/JLA AVIATION...JLA MARINE...JLA DISCUSSION...GM
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 521 AM EDT WED APR 23 2008 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-241200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 521 AM EDT WED APR 23 2008 /421 AM CDT WED APR 23 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SLOW TO STEADY SNOW MELT WILL CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE ALREADY HIGH RUNNING RIVERS AND STREAMS. PLEASE SEE THE LATEST HYDROLOGIC STATEMENTS...FLOOD WARNINGS...OR OTHER STATEMENTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS. PATCHY DENSE FOG...REDUCING VISIBILITY TO ONE-QUARTER MILE OR LESS... IS POSSIBLE EARLY THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. THE COMBINATION OF THE RUNOFF FROM THE RAIN AND LEFT OVER SNOW MELT WILL MAINTAIN HIGH RIVER LEVELS AND WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER IN LOW-LYING AREAS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-241200- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 521 AM EDT WED APR 23 2008 /421 AM CDT WED APR 23 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH GALES TO 35 KNOTS WILL OCCUR OVER PARTS OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE WEST HALF OF LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY AND ACROSS ALL OF LAKE SUPERIOR THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY...AND THEN OVER EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR FRIDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ221-248-250-241200- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 521 AM EDT WED APR 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DENSE FOG...REDUCING VISIBILITY TO ONE-QUARTER MILE OR LESS...IS EXPECTED THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. JLA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Minor flooding occurred along County Road LG during the spring snowmelt.
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