Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 7:13 PM EDT for Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kalkaska County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 052314 SVRMKG MIC079-060000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 713 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...KALKASKA COUNTY AT 710 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN ESTREME WESTERN KALKASKA COUNTY...15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRAVERSE CITY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR THE CITY OF KALKASKA BY 730 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ALONG WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINBDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 1 hour 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, 57 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 | Antrim | 46 min |
| Jul 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 46 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.