Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 18, 1995, 7:27 PM EDT for Muskegon County, Oceana County, Michigan. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 18, 1995, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 18, 1995, 8:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Muskegon County, MI, Oceana County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKG 182329 SVRMKG MIC121-127-190030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 727 PM EDT TUE APR 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN ...NORTHERN MUSKEGON COUNTY...OCEANA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN. SMALL HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN OCEANA COUNTY. A LARGE PINE TREE WAS REPORTED BLOWN DOWN IN MUSKEGON COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR WITH SOME HEAVY RAIN ALSO BEING OBSERVED. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
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, Apr 18, 5:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before
MIZ022-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 541 PM EDT TUE APR 18 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO OTSEGO COUNTY EARLY THIS EVENING... AT 535 PM EDT A LINE OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST OTSEGO COUNTY NEAR OTSEGO LAKE...ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF THE CITY OF GAYLORD. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MILES PER HOUR AND WILL ENTER THE CITY OF GAYLORD BY 545 PM. AND THE TOWN OF JOHANNESBURG BY 550 PM. HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING MAY ACCOMPANY THESE THUNDERSTORMS AS THEY PASS THROUGH OTSEGO COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD EXIT THE COUNTY BY 615 PM. PERSONS IN OTSEGO COUNTY SHOULD MOVE INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS...DOORS AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OUT OF THE AREA. IF YOU ARE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITY THIS EVENING CHECK LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER UPDATES AS ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT IS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE EVENING. FOR THE LATEST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATEMENTS PLEASE LISTEN TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS. KEITH DICKS n NNNN
Special weather statement, Apr 18, 6:40 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
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
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.