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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

April 6, 1988Muskegon County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1988, 12:49 AM EDT for Muskegon County, Michigan. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 6, 1988, 12:49 AM EDT (04:49 UTC)
Expired
Apr 6, 1988, 1:20 AM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Muskegon 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 206 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1988-04-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1988-04-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 205 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 12:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMuskegon, Newaygo56 min
Apr 6, 1:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMecosta27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.