Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1994, 9:26 PM EDT for Muskegon County, Michigan. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1994, 9:26 PM EDT (01:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1994, 10:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muskegon County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 486 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMKG 140126 RRA
SVRMKG
MIC121-140230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
926 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
MUSKEGON
...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTY JUST MENTIONED
AT 920 PM EDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING ONSHORE OVER NORT
HERN MUSKEGON COUNTY FROM WHITEHALL SOUTH TO NORTH MUSKEGON.
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH WILL ACOMPANY THIS STORM.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF
AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE GO TO A CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.
BOLENWhat 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, 6:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 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
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
MIZ022-028-034-140215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 805 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 800 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FAIRVIEW TO 5 MILES NORTH OF MANTON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH AND BY 830 PM WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR CURRAN SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HIGGINS LAKE AREA TO NEAR LAKE CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE AREA. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS... NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 8:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
MIZ022-028-034-140215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 805 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 800 PM EDT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM FAIRVIEW TO 5 MILES NORTH OF MANTON. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH AND BY 830 PM WILL EXTEND FROM NEAR CURRAN SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE HIGGINS LAKE AREA TO NEAR LAKE CITY. THE THUNDERSTORMS IN THIS AREA WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE AREA. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS... NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 9:04 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
MIZ034-035-140200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 904 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH ROSCOMMON AND OGEMAW COUNTIES... AT 900 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF ROSCOMMON AND OGEMAW COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER THE VILLAGE OF ST. HELEN IN EASTERN ROSCOMMON COUNTY WHILE OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARDS THE ROSE CITY AREA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL HIT THE ROSE CITY AREA BY 915 PM AND THE WEST BRANCH AREA BY 930 PM. THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH ROSCOMMON AND OGEMAW COUNTIES WERE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS OVER 30 MPH...SMALL HAIL... TORRENTIAL RAINS AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING.PERSONS IN ST. HELEN IN ROSCOMMON COUNTY AND ROSE CITY...LUPTON AND WEST BRANCH SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS WHILE THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH THE AREA UNTIL 1000 PM. KEITH NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 9:26 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
MIZ018-023-024-029-030-038-042-509-140330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 926 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED... AT 923 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST NORTH OF OSCODA SOUTHWEST INTO WEST BRANCH MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND 25 MILES AN HOUR. AT 910 PM...A SPOTTER REPORTED WINDS NEAR 30 MPH AS THEY PASSED OVER M65 NEAR THE AU SABLE RIVER. BY 1015 PM...THE LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE FROM TAWAS CITY TO TWINING. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WINDS GUSTS NEAR 30 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS YOUR LOCATION. REMEMBER TO SLOW DOWN IF DRIVING IN HEAVY RAIN AND GET IN FROM THE OUTSIDE IF YOU SEE LIGHTNING. HELGESON
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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.