Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 18, 1993, 5:40 PM EDT for Barry County, Michigan. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1993, 5:40 PM EDT (21:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 1536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 KGRR 182141 TORGRR MIC015-182215- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 540 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ...BARRY COUNTY AT 538 PM EDT THE SHERIFF IN BARRY COUNTY REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN NORTHERN BARRY COUNTY NORTH OF THE CITY OF MIDDLEVILLE... NEAR GACKLER ROAD. THE TORNADO IS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND IS MOVING PARALLEL TO GACKLER ROAD. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. &
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Jul 18, 2:50 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
MIZ005-006-014-017-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 250 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 245 PM... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A FEW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM HESPIRIA TO BIG RAPIDS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH WHITE CLOUD AND STANWOOD BY 315 PM. STRONG GUSTY WINDS... SMALL HAIL... OCCASIOANL LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN MAY ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. JSB
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
MIZ005-006-014-017-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 350 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 350 PM... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM IN STANWOOD JMOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. JSB
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 3:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
MIZ005-006-014-017-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 350 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAD WEAKENED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 350 PM... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM IN STANWOOD JUST SOUTH OF BIG RAPIDS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH MECOSTA AND REMUS BY 420 PM. THIS STORM WAS IMBEDDED IN A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS THAT EXTENDED SOUTH OF M-55 AND COVERED MOST OF WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. JSB
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
MIZ011-018-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LANSING MI 420 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO BRANCH COUNTY... AT 412 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING OUT OF NORTHEAST INDIANA AND INTO SOUTHERN BRANCH COUNTY BETWEEN KINDERHOOK AND CALIFORNIA...OR 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAINS...AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE COMMUNITIES OF ALGANSEE AND CALIFORNIA IN SOUTHEAST BRANCH COUNTY BETWEEN 420 AND 430 PM...AND WILL THEN MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST HILLSDALE COUNTY NEAR READING BETWEEN 430 AND 445 PM. AVOID USING THE TELEPHONE DURING THUNDERSTORMS...EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCIES. STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MOTORISTS ARE URGED TO DRIVE SLOWLY DURING THUNDERSTORMS...AS HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE REDUCED VISIBILITY AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. . BORIS
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:55 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
MIZ-013-004-016-015-003-010-009-002-182300-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
455 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993
...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING BACK INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...
AT 455 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
BACK INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED NORTH OF A GRAND HAVEN TO ROCKFORD LINE WITH
ANOTHER BATCH LOCATED FROM GRAND RAPIDS SOUTHWEST TO THE SOUTH HAVEN
AREA. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS NORTHEAST ILLINOIS
AND SOUTH LAKE MICHIGAN. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE QUARTER TO THREE
QUARTERS OF AN INCH CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.
THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE GRAND
RAPIDS AREA UNTIL AFTER 900 PM AND THE KALAMAZOO AREA FROM AROUND 600
TO 1000 PM.
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MIZ-013-004-016-015-003-010-009-002-182300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 455 PM EDT SUN JUL 18 1993 ...THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING BACK I
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch | 21 min |
| Jul 18, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 37 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.