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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

July 28, 1993Delta County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 28, 1993, 1:50 PM EDT for Delta County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1993, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1993, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Delta County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 1993-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 186 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 206 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
186 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-168 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
206 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 2:23 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTSchoolcraft37 min
Jul 28, 3:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTAlger, Schoolcraft31 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.