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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Gaylord, MI

July 17, 1994Osceola County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1994, 4:27 PM EDT for Osceola County, Michigan. It was in force for 78 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1994, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
78 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Osceola County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KFNT), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1994-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1994-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1295 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKG 172027
TORMKG
MIC133-172130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
427 PM EDT SUN JUL 17 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
      NORTHWEST OSCEOLA

AT 420 PM AN OSCEOLA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED A TORNADO IN
NORTHWEST OSCEOLA COUNTY 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN.
THE TORNADO IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD
CROSS U.S. 131 5 MILES NORTH OF TUSTIN BY 430PM.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT SHELTER IF
AVAILABLE...OTHERWISE GO TO A 0CENTRAL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR. ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING.

DUBRISH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 5:56 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXKalkaska64 min
Jul 17, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXKalkaska31 min

Nearby

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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.