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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Gaylord, MI

August 13, 1994Presque Isle County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1994, 6:59 PM EDT for Presque Isle County, Michigan. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 13, 1994, 6:59 PM EDT (22:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 13, 1994, 7:58 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Presque Isle County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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 1994-08-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 63 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 1994-08-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-77 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:41 PM EDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
MIZ007-008-015-132230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI
241 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST UPPER MICHIGAN...

AT 235 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE SAULT
TO ENGADINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO REACH A LINE FROM PICKFORD TO BREVORT BY 330 PM.
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS CAN
BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD SEEK SAFETY FROM WINDS
AND LIGHTNING IN A STRONG REINFORCED BUILDING.

JLB
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:42 PM EDT, 4 hours 17 minutes before
MIZ007-008-015-132230-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI
241 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST UPPER MICHIGAN...

AT 235 PM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE SAULT
TO ENGADINE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
EXPECTED TO REACH A LINE FROM PICKFORD TO BREVORT BY 330 PM.
BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS CAN
BE EXPECTED WIT6H THESE STORMS.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD SEEK SAFETY FROM WINDS
AND LIGHTNING IN A STRONG REINFORCED BUILDING.

JLB
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 6:45 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
MIZ022-028-132345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI
645 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN...

AT 635 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO OTSEGO AND
CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE
OF THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM VANDERBILT IN OTSEGO COUNTY TO
15 MILES WEST OF FREDERIC IN NORTHWEST CRAWFORD COUNTY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO
GAYLORD BY 700 PM AND INTO FREDERIC BY 710 PM.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS THROUGH OTSEGO AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES.

IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES AND USE THE PHONE ONLY IN AN EMERGENCY.

NNNN

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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.