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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Gaylord, MI

July 17, 1994Kalkaska County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 17, 1994, 5:56 PM EDT for Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1994, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1994, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Kalkaska County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 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, Sault Ste Marie, MI at 12:00Z on 1994-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 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 172201 COR
TORMKG
MIC079-172300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY

   IN THE NORTHWEST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
      KALKASKA

AT 550 PM... THE KALKASKA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THAT SPOTTERS
IN THE SKYWARN NETWORK REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 3 MILES EAST OF
FIFE LAKE AND 1 MILE WEST OF SOUTH BOARDMAN. THE THUNDERSTORMS
ASSOCIATED WITH THE FUNNEL CLOUDS WERE MOVING EAST AT 10 MILES
AN HOUR. THE FUNNEL MAY EXTEND TO THE GROUND AT ANY MOMENT.

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.

ALTHOUGH THE STORMS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL MOVE
THROUGH RURAL AREAS OF KALKASKA COUNTY WHERE NO CITIES OR TOWNS
EXIST... RESIDENTS IN THE RURAL AREAS SHOULD BE ON GUARD.

IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORCED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND.

THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

DUBRISH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 4:27 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXOsceola78 min
Jul 17, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningAPXKalkaska31 min

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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.