Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 6:59 PM EDT for Antrim County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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, 11.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 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 KMKG 052301 SVRMKG MIC009-089-MIZ905-052345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 659 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...WESTERN ANTRIM COUNTY...LEELANAU COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON COASTAL WATERS FROM.. ...NORTH PORT TO CHARLEVOIS INCLUDING GRAND TRAVERSE BAY... AT 655 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF LELAND...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF TRAVERSE CITY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OF NORTHPORT BY 710 PM AND NORWOOD IN ANTRIM COUNTY BY 730 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY!! THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING *BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. THIS WARNING REPLACES THE SPECIAL MARINE WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM POINT BETSIE TO CHARLEVOIX. FELVER
What 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, Jul 5, 6:13 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
MIZ016-017-019-514-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 613 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS FROM LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY TO NORWOOD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL HIT INDIAN RIVER AND WOLVERINE BY 645 PM AND CHEYBOYGAN AND TOWER BY 710 PM. TORRENTIAL RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MARINERS FROM THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC TO NORWOOD AND PERSONS IN EMMET... CHARLEVOIX.... AND CHEYBOYGAN COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. HOLLINGSWORTH
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 6:16 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
MIZ016-017-019-514-052315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADING... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 613 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO EXTREME NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 610 PM RADAR INDICATED INTENSIFYING THUNDERSTORMS FROM LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY TO NORWOOD. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL HIT INDIAN RIVER AND WOLVERINE BY 645 PM AND CHEYBOYGAN AND TOWER BY 710 PM. TORRENTIAL RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS... AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. MARINERS FROM THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC TO NORWOOD AND PERSONS IN EMMET... CHARLEVOIX.... AND CHEYBOYGAN COUNTIES SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER lAPPROACHES. HOLLINGSWORTH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Grand Traverse | 51 min |
| Jul 4, 8:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Wexford | 68 min |
| Jul 4, 9:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Oscoda | 30 min |
| Jul 4, 10:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Osceola | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 10:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Muskegon, Oceana | 47 min |
| Jul 4, 11:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Newaygo | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mecosta | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Kalkaska | 47 min |
| Jul 5, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Lake, Mason | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994
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.