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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

July 20, 1987Isabella County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1987, 6:40 PM EDT for Isabella County, Michigan. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 1987, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 1987, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Isabella County, MI

The radar

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

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 20, 4:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  MUSKEGON MI
435 PM EDT MON JUL 20 1987

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST LOWER
   MICHIGAN AND THE ADJOINING LAKE MICHIGAN WATERS...

AT 430 PM EDT A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...A FEW CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING SEVERE WEATHER...WAS MOVING ONSHORE OVER NORTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN.  THE STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED ONSHORE OVER LEELANAU
AND BENZIE COUNTIES AND MOVING ONSHORE OVER MANISTEE COUNTY IN
NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING FAIRLY FAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
BOATER/S IN THE VICINITY OF THESE STORMS SHOULD TAKE SAFE HARBOR
IMMEDIATELY AS THE STORMS MOVE ONSHORE.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER} 405 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL
1000 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR PERSON/S IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN.
}BOLEN
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 5:56 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 20, 6:36 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClinton, Gratiot37 min
Jul 20, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRKent37 min
Jul 20, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClinton27 min
Jul 20, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRREaton, Ingham68 min
Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRBarry, Ionia30 min
Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan30 min

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.