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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 13, 1995Antrim County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 9:21 PM EDT for Antrim County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 9:21 PM EDT (01:21 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Antrim County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 176 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-14Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 335 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
335 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
508 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 KGRR 140122
SVRMKG
MIC009-089-140200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
ISSUED BY GRAND RAPIDS MI
921 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST MICHIGAN
 
   ...WESTERN ANTRIM COUNTY...EASTERN LEELANAU COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN...
 
 
AT 920 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN
LEELANAU COUNTY NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF FOUCH. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST 40 MPH AND WILL REACH GRAND TRAVERSE BAY BY 925... AND
ENTER ANTRIM COUNTY BY 930 PM EDT. THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS
OVER 50 MPH... LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM GET INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
MJK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXLeelanau39 min
May 13, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMason39 min
May 13, 10:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix, Cheboygan49 min
May 13, 11:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXPresque Isle33 min
May 14, 12:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXPresque Isle29 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.