Strong south winds out ahead of an approaching cold front gusted to near 50 mph at some locations in Marquette and between 30 and 40 mph across much of the rest of Upper Michigan on the afternoon of the 28th.
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Strong south winds out ahead of an approaching cold front gusted to near 50 mph at some locations in Marquette and between 30 and 40 mph across much of the rest of Upper Michigan on the afternoon of the 28th.
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 Sep 28, 3:14 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 414 PM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY) ISSUED AT 412 PM EDT SAT SEEP 28 2013 WV IMAGERY AND RUC ANALYSIS INDICATED A PROMINENT SHORTWAVE TROUGH FROM ERN NORTH DAKOTA INTO SW MN. AN AREA OF RAIN ALONG AND BEHIND THE SFC COLD FRONT FROM NE MN THROUGH WRN WI WAS ADVANCING STEADILY TOWARD UPPER MI. THE COLD FRONT WAS DEFINED BY A VERY NARROW HEAVIER N-S RAIN BAND TO NEAR HYR AT 1930Z. TONIGHT...FCST ONSET OF PCPN WAS DELAYED SLIGHTLY COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS FCSTS...PER RADAR TRENDS AND SHORT TERM MODELS. OTHERWISE... THE COMBINATION OF MODERATE TO STRONG 700-300 MB QVECTOR CONV...AROUND 100M 5H HEIGHT FALLS WITH TROUGH...STRONG 850-700MB FGEN AND RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION FORCING FROM A 120 KNOT 250-300 MB JET...AND GOOD MOISTURE AVAILABILITY WITH PWAT VALUES AT OR ABOVE 1.6 INCHES WILL SUSTAIN THE RAIN BAND AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE CWA TONIGHT. THE SPEED OF THE FRONT MAY LIMIT OVERALL QPF AMOUNTS TO 0.20-0.35 INCH WITH LESSER AMOUNTS IN LOW LEVEL SRLY DOWNSLOPE FLOW LOCATIONS NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR. THE FRONT AND POST-FRONTAL PCPN WILL EXIT THE ERN CWA SHORTLY AFTER 06Z SUN WITH GOOD SUBSIDENCE/CLEARING EXPECTED IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT LATE TONIGHT. SUNDAY...THE SHORTWAVE TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT INTO NORTHERN ONTARIO REACHING JAMES BAY BY SUN AFTERNOON. THOUGH SUBSIDENCE BEHIND THE WAVE SHOULD CLEAR OUT MOST OF THE CLOUDS BY SUNRISE ON SUNDAY...850-750 MB THERMAL TROUGH SUPPORT SCT-BKN STRATOCU CLOUDS DEVELOPING OVR CNTRL AND EAST. MIXING TO 850 MB RESULTS IN MAX TEMPS IN THE MID TO UPPERR 60S. .LONG TERM...(SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY) ISSUED AT 412 PM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 STARTING 00Z MON...THE TROUGH/COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE THROUGH TONIGHT WILL BE WELL E OF THE CWA...AS WILL ALL ASSOCIATED PRECIP. MORE ZONAL UPPER LEVEL FLOW WILL BE PRESENT OVER THE REGION...WITH UPPER TROUGHING OVER THE NW CONUS. THROUGH WED...ZONAL FLOW LOOKS TO REMAIN THE DOMINANT UPPER PATTERN OVER THE CWA...WITH SEVERAL DISTURBANCES MOVING ACROSS CANADA BUT STAYING FAR ENOUGH N OF THE CWA TO RULE OUT SIGNIFICANT PRECIP. WITH A WEAK SFC TROUGH/COLD FRONT BUILDING TO OUR W MON AND MON NIGHT...THEN MOVING THROUGH THE CWA LATE TUE AND TUE NIGHT...WINDS WILL INCREASE OUT OF THE SW AHEAD OF THE TROUGH...THEN TURN W TO WNW LAT TUE THROUGH WED BEHIND THE TROUGH. THIS LEADS TO 850MB TEMPS INCREASING TO AROUND 15C BY 00Z TUE /AN INCREASE OF AROUND 9C FROM SUN/...AND POSSIBLY WARMING A BIT MORE THROUGH MON NIGHT. WHILE HIGHS ON SUN LOOK TO BE IN THE 60S...HIGHS ON MON ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 70S TO NEAR 80 IN SOME SPOTS OVER WRN UPPER MI. LOWS ON MON NIGHT SHOULD THEN BE IN THE MID 40S IN THE COLDEST SPOTS OVER ERN UPPER MI TO THE MID 50S NEAR LAKE SUPERIOR AND W. LOOKS LIKE ANY PRECIP WITH FROPA ON TUE/TUE NIGHT WILL STAY N OF LAKE SUPERIOR WITH THE BETTER UPPER LEVEL FORCING. TUE SHOULD SEE SIMILAR TEMPS TO MON...OR POSSIBLY A COUPLE OF DEGREES WARMER GIVEN THE WARM LOW TEMPS MON NIGHT. COOLER AIR ARRIVES TUE NIGHT...BUT BREEZY WINDS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WILL HELP KEEP LOW TEMPS FROM FALLING TOO LOW. WITH 850MB TEMPS OF 7-8C ON WED...TEMPS WILL BE COOLER THAN TUE WITH HIGHS PRIMARILY IN THE 60S TO AROUND 70. THINGS BECOME MUCH MORE UNCLEAR THU THROUGH NEXT SAT AS MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW SOME SORT OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY MOVING INTO THE CENTRAL CONUS. WHILE MODELS DO AGREE THAT THE ENERGY WILL BE STRONGER /AND EITHER A DEEP TROUGH OR A CLOSED LOW/...THEY HAVE POOR RUN TO RUN CONTINUITY AND POOR MODEL TO MODEL AGREEMENT. THIS LENDS VERY LITTLE CONFIDENCE IN DETAILS FOR THIS PORTION OF THE FORECAST. FOR THIS REASON...WILL LOAD A GENERAL CONSENSUS OF MODEL GUIDANCE...AND AM FINE WITH HIGHER END POPS AS ALL MODEL SCENARIOS WOULD LEAD TO PRECIP AT ONE TIME OR ANOTHER. IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT THAT ALL MODELS AT THIS TIME ARE WARM ENOUGH TO NOT WARRANT TALKING ABOUT MIXED PRECIP...SO IT SEEMS THAT THERE WILL NOT BE ANY WINTER QUITE YET. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 18Z TAFS THROUGH 18Z SUNDAY AFTERNOON) ISSUED AT 149 PM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 EXPECT GUSTY SRLY WINDS AT ALL TAF SITES THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. A PERIOD OF GUSTY WEST WINDS AT KCMX WILL ALSO PREVAIL IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT. RAIN WILL MOVE INTO KIWD AROUND 20Z AND KCMX/KSAW AT 22Z/00Z. CIGS SHOULD LOWER BRIEFLY TO MVFR...ESPECIALLY AT CMX...WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE RAIN BUT EXPECT IMPROVEMENT TO VFR AS DRIER AIR MOVES IN BEHIND THE FRONT AND SCATTERS OUT CLOUD DECK. && .MARINE...(FOR THE 4 PM LAKE SUPERIOR FORECAST ISSUANCE) ISSUED AT 412 PM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 A FRONT WILL SLIDE EAST ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR THIS EVENING AND DURING THE EARLY OVERNIGHT HOURS...SHIFTING THE WINDS TO THE WEST. THERE COULD BE A FEW HOUR PERIOD OF GALE FORCE GUSTS OVER THE WESTERN LAKE THIS EVENING BEHIND THE FRONT. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD IN FOR SUNDAY AND QUICKLY DECREASE THE WINDS ACROSS THE LAKE. THIS HIGH WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST LATE MONDAY...AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS CENTRAL CANADA. THIS WILL RESULT IN A BRIEF INCREASE IN SOUTHERLY WINDS OVER LAKE SUPERIOR MONDAY NIGHT WITH A FEW GUSTS REACHING 25 KT. && .MQT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UPPER MICHIGAN... NONE. LAKE SUPERIOR... NONE. LAKE MICHIGAN... NONE. && SHORT TERM...JLB LONG TERM...TITUS AVIATION...JLB MARINE...JLB
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 523 AM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-291100- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 523 AM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 /423 AM CDT SAT SEP 28 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SOUTHERLY WIND GUSTS OF 30 MPH TO 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT APPROACHING UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-291100- 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- 523 AM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 /423 AM CDT SAT SEP 28 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT WESTERLY GALE FORCE GUSTS TO 35 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-291100- 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- 523 AM EDT SAT SEP 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. JLA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
There were several reports of tree limbs down on cars and at least one report of a power line down in Marquette. A peak wind gust of 44 mph was reported at the K.I Sawyer AWOS station during this same time.
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