Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 1986
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 27, 1986, 6:15 PM EDT for Alger County, Michigan. It was in force for 15 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 1986, 6:15 PM EDT (22:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1986, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Alger County, MI
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Sault Ste Marie, MI (KSSM), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMQT 272217 COR TORMQT MIC003-272230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING..CORRECTED TORNADOES TO FUNNEL CLDS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 615 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1986 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY OF NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN...ALGER ...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE COUNTY JUST MENTIONED AT 548 PM EDT..MICHIGAN STATE POLICE REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS 1 MILE WEST OF EBEN..30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARQUETTE MICHIGAN..MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO..GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME..FIND A REINFORCED SHELTER OR LIE FLAT IN A DITCH OR RAVINE. REPORT ALL SEVERE WEATHER SIGHTINGS TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY AND ASK THEM TO RELAY IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. EGGER
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 27, 4:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 455 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1986 AT 440 PM EDT..THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WERE OVER CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. THE HEAVIEST SHOWER ACTIVITY WAS ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARQUETTE..NEAR GWINN. ANOTHER AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS..SOME WITH HEAVY RAINSHOWERS WAS IN NORTHCENTRAL WISCONSIN AND EXTENDED EAST THROUGH IRON MOUNTAIN TO 15 MILES WEST OF ESCANABA. ALL SHOWERS AND THUN"DERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. EGGER
Nearby
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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.