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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Gaylord, MI

July 6, 1994Alcona County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 4:23 PM EDT for Alcona County, Michigan. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1994, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Alcona County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.2

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The text

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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

Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
300 PM EDT WED JUL 6 1994

TIME (EDT)   COUNTY        DESCRIPTION OF EVENT

...ALL REPORTS FROM JULY 5 1994...

908  PM      MONTMORENCY   3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER IN LEWISTON

1015 PM      OSCODA        1" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER .5MI SOUTH
                           OF LUZERNE

1017 PM      OSCODA        3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTERS IN BOTH
                           MIO AND LUZERNE

1019 PM      OSCODA        WIND DAMAGE- TREE DOWN IN MIO ON M-33
                           TREE DIAMETER 12" - SPOTTER REPORT

1015 PM      IOSCO         SPOTTER REPORTED 3/4" HAIL IN THE TOWN
                           OF HALE

1130 PM      IOSCO         STATE POLICE REPORTED 3 TREES DOWNED
                           18" IN DIAMETER 2MI NORTH OF OSCODA

HOLLINGSWORTH

Local storm report, Jul 6, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
300 PM EDT WED JUL 6 1994

TIME (EDT)   COUNTY        DESCRIPTION OF EVENT

...ALL REPORTS FROM JULY 5 1994...

908  PM      MONTMORENCY   3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER IN LEWISTON

1015 PM      OSCODA        1" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTER .5MI SOUTH
                           OF LUZERNE

1017 PM      OSCODA        3/4" HAIL REPORTED BY SPOTTERS IN BOTH
                           MIO AND LUZERNE

1019 PM      OSCODA        WIND DAMAGE- TREE DOWN IN MIO ON M-33
                           TREE DIAMETER 12" - SPOTTER REPORT

1015 PM      IOSCO         SPOTTER REPORTED 3/4" HAIL IN THE TOWN
                           OF HALE

1130 PM      IOSCO         STATE POLICE REPORTED 3 TREES DOWNED
                           18" IN DIAMETER 2MI NORTH OF OSCODA

HOLLINGSWORTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 5, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Montmorency	61 min
Jul 5, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Oscoda	63 min
Jul 5, 9:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Alcona, Alpena	64 min
Jul 5, 9:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	APX	Alpena, Presque Isle	41 min
Jul 5, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Oscoda	61 min
Jul 5, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	66 min
Jul 5, 11:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	56 min
Jul 6, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Missaukee	31 min
Jul 6, 5:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	88 min
Jul 6, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Osceola, Wexford	68 min
Jul 6, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	63 min
Jul 6, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1994 Every 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.