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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 17, 1992Antrim County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 17, 1992, 5:13 PM EDT for Antrim County, Michigan. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 17, 1992, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 17, 1992, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Antrim County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Sault Ste Marie, MI at 12:00Z on 1992-06-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1992-06-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 342 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
342 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
399 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKG 172113
TORMKG
MIC009-172215-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
513 PM EDT WED JUN 17 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
      WESTERN ANTRIM

AT 505 PM EDT A WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO IN THE
ELK RAPIDS COMMUNITY. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
AT 25 MPH TOWARDS THE TOWN OF BELLAIRE.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF
AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REIZNFORCED BUILDING.

DUBRISH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 17, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOscoda48 min
Jun 17, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMecosta, Osceola33 min
Jun 17, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCheboygan52 min
Jun 17, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOceana27 min
Jun 17, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOsceola39 min
Jun 17, 4:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXLake, Mason31 min
Jun 17, 4:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXGrand Traverse, Wexford39 min
Jun 17, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMuskegon32 min
Jun 17, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOscoda69 min
Jun 17, 5:22 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXNewaygo38 min
Jun 17, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAlcona57 min
Jun 17, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAlpena67 min
Jun 17, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXPresque Isle39 min
Jun 17, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXArenac, Iosco44 min

Nearby

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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.