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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 30, 1989Allegan County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 1989, 7:31 PM EDT for Allegan County, Michigan. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 1989, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 1989, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Allegan 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, May 30, 4:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING, MI
424 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 1989

   ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #358 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...
     ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH INGHAM COUNTY...

AT 420 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN CENTRAL
INGHAM COUNTY OVER THE CITY OF MASON OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF LANSING. SMALL
HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM
AS IT MOVES TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH.
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING, MI
546 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 1989

   ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #358 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...
   ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN GRATIOT AND
      NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES...

AT 545 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHERN GRATIOT AND NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES
SETTING OFF SENSITIVE ALARM DEVICES.

THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE OF OTHER STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS STRETCHING FROM SAGINAW BAY SOUTHWEST TO 5 MILES NORTH OF ST.
JOHNS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF IONIA.

ALL OF THE THUNDERST8ORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

KALLAS
Special weather statement, May 30, 5:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTED...ADDED FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING, MI
555 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 1989

   ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #358 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...
                  ...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT...
   ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN GRATIOT AND
      NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES...

AT 545 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED A FEW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHERN GRATIOT AND NORTHERN CLINTON COUNTIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE PRODUCING BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN AND NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES
SETTING OFF SENSITIVE ALARM DEVICES.

THE VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN A LINE OF OTHER STRONG THUNDER-
STORMS STRETCHING FROM SAGINAW BAY SOUTHWEST> TO 5 MILES NORTH OF ST.
JOHNS TO 10 MILES SOUTH OF IONIA.

ALL OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

KALLAS
Special weather statement, May 30, 6:44 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING, MI
637 PM EDT TUE MAY 30 1989

   ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH #358 IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT...
                  ...FLOOD WATCH FOR TONIGHT...
...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...

AT 635 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH
SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. VERY HEAVY RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH
THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT
35 MPH.

WITH HEAVY RAINFALL OCCURING IN THE GREATER LANSING AREA, CLINTON COUNTY.
SOME URBAN FLOODING CAN BE EXPECTED.

IF YOU ARE DRIVING WITH IN THE AREA BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER AREAS OF
WATER ALONG RwOADS, AND IN LOW LYING AREAS. AND UNDERPASSES.

SUTTLE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 30, 6:07 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRVan Buren48 min
May 30, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRAllegan56 min
May 30, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRKalamazoo61 min
May 30, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRCalhoun55 min
May 30, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRJackson61 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.