Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Gaylord, MI
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.
- 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
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.