Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 1992, 8:51 AM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 2, 1992, 8:51 AM EDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 1992, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iosco County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 292 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1219 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KAPN 021251
SVRAPN
MIC069-021345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
851 AM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 AM EDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE NORTHEAST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
IOSCO
...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTY JUST MENTIONED
AT 845 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER NORTHERN OGEMAW COUNTY
NEAR ROSE CITY...55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALPENA OR 30 MILE EAST OF
HOUGHTON LAKE.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH
HALE BY 9AM...AND NEAR TAWAS CITY BY 920 AM.
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 LIGHTNING.
INTENSE LIGHTNING IS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM HIGH OBJECTS...SUCH AS TREES. MOVE INDOORS IF POSSIBLE.
WHEN INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS AND AVOID USING
TELEPHONES AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT.
MEADEWhat 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 2, 7:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
MIZ039-048-060>062-064>068-021400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT-RANGE WEATHER FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 720 AM EDT SAT MAY 2 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN AND NORTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN THIS MORNING... AT 720 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CHEBOYGAN...20 MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE MACKINAC BRIDGE... SOUTHWEST TO THE TRAVERSE CITY AREA...50 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING WAS LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF TRAVERSE CITY AT 720 AM. THIS LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY EAST AT AROUND 50 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ONAWAY AND GAYLORD BY 730 AM...INTO ROGERS CITY...ATLANTA AND HOUGHTON LAKE BY 745 AM...AND NEAR GRAND LAKE...LACHINE AND MIO AROUND 8 AM. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITHIN THIS LINzE OF THUNDERSTORMS. BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MEADE
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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.