Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 7:47 PM EDT for Lake County, Mason County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lake County, MI, Mason County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 910 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 052348 SVRMKG MIC085-105-060045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 747 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN ...LAKE COUNTY...MASON COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. AT 745 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME WESTERN MASON COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF WEIMER...50 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CADILLAC. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR THE TOWN OF FOUNTAIN BY 805 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT 1/4 TO 1/2 INCH HAIL ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH WITH THE PASSAGE OF THIS STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. 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 34 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, 1 hour 31 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
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 7:17 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
MIZ022-028-034-035-040-041-060015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 717 PM EDT TUE JUL 5 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 715 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR FROM HOUGHTON LAKE INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES WEST OF THE CITY OF GRAYLING IN CRAWFORD COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL HIT THE GRAYLING AREA BY 745 PM EDT. PERSONS BETWEEN THE CITIES OF FREDERIC AND GRAYLING IN CRAWFORD COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THE APPROACH OF THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER INDOORS WHEN THESE THUNDERSTORMS PASS OVERHEAD. SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEVADLY LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND STATEMENTS ON THESE THUNDERSTORMS PLEASE STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS. KEITH DICKS NNNN
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, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Kalkaska | 47 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.