Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1993, 6:02 PM EDT for Missaukee County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1993, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1993, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Missaukee County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1254 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS1 KMKG 242202 RRA
SVRMKG
MIC113-242300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
602 PM EDT SAT APR 24 1993
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
NORTHEAST MISSAUKEE
AT 602 PM... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
THE VICINITY OF MOORESTOWN MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...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 REINFORCED BUILDING.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
DUBRISHWhat 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, Apr 24, 5:39 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
MIZ045-047-063-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 535 PM EDT SAT APR 24 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 530 PM EDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TOWARD NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE FROM BOYNE FALLS 50 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE TO 25 MILES WEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH GAYLORD AROUND 600 PM AND GRAYLING AND HOUGHTON LAKE AREA BY 630 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PROODUCE GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS THROUGH NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN EARLY THIS EVENING.
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 5:46 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
MIZ039-048-060>062-064>068-509-514-250100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 547 PM EDT TUE APR 20 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 545 PM...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS EXTREME NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. ONE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALBA... AROUND 60 MILES TO THE SOUTH OF THE MACKINAC BRIDGE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR... AND WILL MOVE CLOSE TO BOYNE FALLS BY 610 PM... AND JUST WEST OF WOLVERINE BY 625 PM. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM AS IT PASSES OVERHEAD. IF YOU LIVE AROUND THE BOYNE CITY OR WOLVERINE AREA... SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. ALL THUNDERSTORMS POSE A LIGHTNING HAZARD TO THOSE THAT ARE OUTDOORS. CAMPBELL
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 5:50 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
MIZ069-070-083-242150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 550 PM EDT SUN APR 24 1993 ...MACKINAC BRIDGE TO SEE THUNDERSTORMS 6PM UNTIL 630 PM... AT 540 PM RADAR CONFIRMED STROUNG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BEAVER ISLAND AND CROSS VILLAGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONSIST OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...1/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PERSONS TRAVELING THE MACKINAC BRIDGE SHOULD SLOW THEIR SPEED OR DELAY TRAVELING OVER THE BRIDGE UNTIL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS OVER. THE REMAINDER OF THE UPPER PENINSULA WILL SEE A FEW SHOWERS THIS EVENING AND STEADY TEMPERATURES AROUND 40 DEGREES. WINDS WILL BE SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH. KESSLER
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 5:51 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
MIZ069-070-083-242150- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 550 PM EDT SUN APR 24 1993 ...MACKINAC BRIDGE TO SEE THUNDERSTORMS 6PM UNTIL 630 PM... AT 540 PM RADAR CONFIRMED STROUNG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BEAVER ISLAND AND CROSS VILLAGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONSIST OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...1/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PERSONS TRAVELING THE MACKINAC BRIDGE SHOULD SLOW THEIR SPEED OR DELAY TRAVELING OVER THE BRIDGE UNTIL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS OVER. THE REMAINDER OF THE UPPER PENINSULA WILL SEE A FEW SHOWERS THIS EVENING AND STEADY TEMPERATURES AROUND 40 DEGREES. WINDS WILL BE SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH. KESSLER
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 6:02 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
MIZ069-070-083-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 602 PM EDT SUN APR 24 1993 ...MACKINAC BRIDGE TO SEE THUNDERSTORMS 6PM UNTIL 630 PM... AT 540 PM RADAR CONFIRMED STROUNG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BEAVER ISLAND AND CROSS VILLAGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONSIST OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...1/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PERSONS TRAVELING THE MACKINAC BRIDGE SHOULD SLOW THEIR SPEED OR DELAY TRAVELING OVER THE BRIDGE UNTIL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS OVER. THE REMAINDER OF THE UPPER PENINSULA WILL SEE A FEW SHOWERS THIS EVENING AND STEADY TEMPERATURES AROUND 40 DEGREES. WINDS WILL BE SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH. KESSLER
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 6:02 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
MIZ069-070-083-242230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 602 PM EDT SUN APR 24 1993 ...MACKINAC BRIDGE TO SEE THUNDERSTORMS 6PM UNTIL 630 PM... AT 540 PM RADAR CONFIRMED STROUNG THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN BEAVER ISLAND AND CROSS VILLAGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS CONSIST OF DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...1/4 INCH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH. PERSONS TRAVELING THE MACKINAC BRIDGE SHOULD SLOW THEIR SPEED OR DELAY TRAVELING OVER THE BRIDGE UNTIL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS OVER. THE REMAINDER OF THE UPPER PENINSULA WILL SEE A FEW SHOWERS THIS EVENING AND STEADY TEMPERATURES AROUND 40 DEGREES. WINDS WILL BE SOUTHEAST 15 TO 25 MPH. KESSLER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse | 65 min |
| Apr 24, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Montmorency | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 49 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.