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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 13, 1995Mason County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 9:51 PM EDT for Mason County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
39 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Mason County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 407 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
407 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
441 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMKG 140152
SVRMKG
MIC105-140230-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
951 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN NORTHWEST MICHIGAN

   ...MASON COUNTY

AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN...


AT 950 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ENTERING MASON COUNTY SOUTHWEST OF LUDINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL PASS THROUGH LUDINGTON BY 10PM.
THIS STORM WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH...CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING... LARGE HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFvALL.


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.

HTS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAntrim39 min
May 13, 9:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXLeelanau39 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.