Tornado Warning 5, NWS Gaylord, MI

Issued

Jul 6, 1991, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)

Expired

Jul 6, 1991, 6:45 PM EDT

In force

54 min

Issued by

NWS Gaylord, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Alpena County, MI

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

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TTAA00 KAPN 062154
TORAPN
MIC007-062245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
551 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALPENA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN
 
   ...EASTERN ALPENA COUNTY
 
  AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON COASTAL WATERS FROM...
 
   ...ROCKPORT  TO  SOUTH POINT
 
AT 550 PM...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS LOCATED ONE MILE SOUTH OF THE ALPENA
COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE CITY OF ALPENA...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
RS

In the hours before

MIZ039-048-060>062-064>068-061800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
1245 PM EDT SAT JUL 6 1991

...THUNDERSTORMS WILL REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND MAY BECOME SEVERE...

AT 1230 PM...MOST OF THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FROM THIS
MORNING HAD COME TO AN END AND SKIES WERE BECOMING PARTLY TO MOSTLY
SUNNY. TEMPERATURES WERE RISING THROUGH THE 70S AND WINDS WERE
BEGINNING TO INCREASE OUT OF THE SOUTH.

SKIES WILL REMAIN PARTLY TO MOSTLY SUNNY THROUGHOUT THE EARLY AFTERNOON
WITH JUST A FEW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HOWEVER...BY MID TO LATE
AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS AND SOME COULD BECOME
SEVERE...PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND HEAVY RAINFALL.
TEMPERATURES WILL BE RISING TO THE MID 80S THIS AFTERNOON AND WINDS WILL
CONTINUE TO INCREASE OUT OF THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST.

PEOPLE IN NORTHEAST AND EXTREME NORTHERN MICHIGAN AND BOATERS ON THE
LAKES SHOULD BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. YOU MAY NEED TO SEEK SHELTER AS SOME OF THE STORMS COULD
BE QUITE DANGEROUS.

BDM

Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 1991Every tornado warning in 1991Tornadoes in 1991

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.