Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 1989, 12:06 AM EDT for Manistee County, Mason County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 1989, 12:06 AM EDT (04:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 1989, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Manistee County, MI, Mason 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 3204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKG 050407
SVRMKG
MIC101-105-127-121-050515-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
1206 AM EDT SAT AUG 5 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
SOUTHWEST MANISTEE...
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
MASON...OCEANA...NORTHWEST MUSKEGON...
...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTIES JUST MENTIONED
AT 1150PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
S FROM NEAR MANISTEE TO SOUTHWEST OF HART AT LITTLE SABLE POINT.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT
30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE ENTERING NORTHERN MUSKEGON COUNTY
BY 1220AM.
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN
AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.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, Aug 4, 8:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 825 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1989 AT 815 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO OTSEGO COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE OR 15 MILES WEST OF GAYLORD. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOdUTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL LIKELY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL.
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 9:17 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 915 PM EDT FRI AUG 4 1989 AT 910 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CRAWFORD COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAYLING MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THERE ARE NO TORNADO WATCHES IN EFFECT IN MICHIGAN.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Montmorency | 42 min |
| Aug 4, 9:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Wexford | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 11:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee, Mason | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 12:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Muskegon, Oceana | 69 min |
| Aug 5, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa, Luce | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
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.