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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

April 24, 1993Grand Traverse County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1993, 4:55 PM EDT for Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 24, 1993, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1993, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Grand Traverse County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 1993-04-24Temperature 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 1993-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 24, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMissaukee58 min
Apr 24, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMontmorency50 min
Apr 24, 6:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAlpena50 min
Apr 24, 7:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXIosco49 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.