Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Issued

May 6, 1986, 11:36 AM EDT (15:36 UTC)

Expired

May 6, 1986, 11:45 AM EDT

In force

9 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Area

Whole counties

Counties Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

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BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING MI
1136 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 1986

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES OF

SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...SOUTHERN INGHAM AND NORTHERN JACKSON

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING FOR SOUTHERN INGHAM AND NORTHERN JACKSON COUNTIES.
THE WARNING IS VALID UNTIL 1145 AM EDT THIS MORNING. THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED BY RADAR ALONG THE INGHAM..JACKSON
BORDERS AND WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. AT 1115 THE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LANSING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM..GET TO A REINFORCED BUILDING.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS..LARGE HAIL..VERY
HEAVY RAIN..AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THEY CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
SPAWN A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING..SO BE ON THE
LOOKOUT.

In the hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1015 AM EDT TUE MAY 6 1986

...THUNDERSTORMS NEAR KALAMAZOO...

AT 1007 AM EDT RADAR FROM SOUTH BEND INDIANA INDICATED AN INTENSE
THUNDERSTORM SOUTHEAST OF THE CITY OF KALAMAZOO. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AS IT PASSES
OVERHEAD. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A @PLACE OF
SAFTEY.

CARLE

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING MI
1030AM EDT TUE MAY 6 1986

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...

AT 1030 AM EDT RADAR SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST
INGHAM COUNTY  AND A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM SOUTHWEST
EATON COUNTY  SOUTH THROUGH CALHOUN AND BRANCH COUNTIES INTO NORTH
INDIANA.
BATTLE CREEK EMERGENCY SERVICES REPORTED HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING IN A 1015 STORM BUT LITTLE WIND AND NO HAIL.
A STORM NEAR MARSHALL HAD 40 TO 45 MPH GUSTS AND SMALL HAIL HEAVY WITH
FREQUENT LIGHTNING.
REAL SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN WAS REPORTED IN SOUTHWEST BRANCH COUNTY
AT 1030.
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT UP TO a40 MPH.
ENT

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.