Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1995, 2:35 PM EDT for Osceola County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 1995, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1995, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Osceola County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 698 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMKG 131835 RRA SVRMKG MIC133-131900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 235 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN ...SOUTHERN OSCEOLA COUNTY AT 230 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTH OF EVART. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL REACH SEARS BY 240 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF POWER OUTAGES IN THE EVART AREA DUE TO FALLEN TREE BRANCHES. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. 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. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS SEVERE WEATHER EVENT. CZYZYK &
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, Aug 13, 9:19 AM EDT, 5 hours 16 minutes before
MIZ028-131415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 919 AM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH CRAWFORD COUNTY... AT 915 AM EDT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CRAWFORD COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE LOCATED ACROSS MAINLY NORTHEAST IN CRAWFORD COUNTY BETWEEN LOVELLS AND GRAYLING AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INDOORS AND DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORMS PASS THROUGH. NNNN
Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:10 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
MIZ028-034-040-132000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI 210 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN... AT 205 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT HOUGHTON LAKE INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM 20 MILES WEST NORTHWEST OF GRAYLING IN EASTERN KALKASKA COUNTY TO REED CITY IN SOUTHWESTERN OSCEOLA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH THE COMMUNITIES OF GRAYLING AND HOUGHTON LAKE BY 230 PM AND HARRISON AND FARWELL BY 250 PM. DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH...ALONG WITH GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH IN A FEW OF THE STRONGER STORMS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GET INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER IMMEDIATELY...PREFERABLY IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND METAL OBJECTS. HURLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 35 min |
| Aug 13, 7:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim | 51 min |
| Aug 13, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena, Montmorency | 69 min |
| Aug 13, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mecosta | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mecosta, Osceola | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Oceana | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Muskegon | 64 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.