Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1995, 4:34 PM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1995, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iosco County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 702 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 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 KAPN 282035 SVRAPN MIC069-MIZ509-282130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI 434 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALPENA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA ...IOSCO COUNTY AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON COASTAL WATERS FROM... ...AU SABLE POINT TO GREENBUSH AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF HALE IN WESTERN IOSCO COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL BE CROSSING NORTHERN PORTIONS OF IOSCO COUNTY BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM REACHING THE LAKE HURON SHORELINE BETWEEN OSCODA AND GREENBUSH BY 530 PM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME.
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, May 28, 1:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
MIZ022-028-034-035-040-041-281845- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 144 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN INCLUDING CLARE AND GLADWIN COUNTIES AND THE COMMUNITIES OF CLARE...FARWELL...HARRISON...GLADWIN AND BEAVERTON. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 3/4 OF AN INCH...DAMAGING WINDS OVER 55 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS OF OVER 70 MPH...AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING IS POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALSO CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCED WARNING. AT 140 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS JUST ENTERING EXTREME SOUTHWEST CLARE COUNTY NEAR THE EIGHT POINT LAKE AREA. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE OVER THE EIGHT POINT LAKE AREA...LAKE VILLAGE AND FARWELL BETWEEN 200 PM AND 230 PM THIS AFTERNOON. THIS STORM IS NOT SEVERE AT THIS TIME BUT WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. PERrSONS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA ARE STONGLY URGED TO MONITOR LOCAL WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO LOCAL TELEVISION AND RADIO STATIONS FOR THE LATEST UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS. KEITH DICKS NNNN
Special weather statement, May 28, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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tAN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HURLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 4:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Alcona, Oscoda | 27 min |
| May 28, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 37 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.