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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Gaylord, MI

August 16, 1988Presque Isle County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1988, 10:57 PM EDT for Presque Isle County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1988, 10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1988, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Presque Isle 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 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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, Sault Ste Marie, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-08-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1402 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Sault Ste Marie, MI at 00:00Z on 1988-08-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
1402 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
906 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
1.3

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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
Aug 16, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXLuce, Mackinac60 min
Aug 16, 10:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXEmmet60 min
Aug 16, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCheboygan70 min
Aug 16, 10:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMackinac60 min
Aug 16, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXPresque Isle61 min
Aug 17, 12:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMontmorency56 min
Aug 17, 12:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAlpena51 min
Aug 17, 1:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXChippewa60 min
Aug 17, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXChippewa, Luce, Mackinac2 hr
Aug 17, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix, Emmet2 hr
Aug 17, 2:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMackinac2 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

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.