Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 10:56 PM EDT for Mackinac County, Michigan. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 10:56 PM EDT (02:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 7, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Mackinac County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1077 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSSM 070254 RRA SVRSSM MIC097-MIZ513-508-070400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 1056 PM EDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAULT STE MARIE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHEAST MICHIGAN ...MACKINAC COUNTY AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES... AT 11 PM EDT A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM THE ST MARYS RIVER SYSTEM WEST TO POINT PATTERSON IN SOUTHWEST MACKINAC COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL BE NEAR BREVORT... ALLENVILLE...ST IGNACE... MACKINAC AND BOIS BLANC ISLANDS... AND CEDARVILLE AT 1130 PM EDT. THESE STORMS HAVE PRODUCED WIND GUSTS OF 63 MILES AN HOUR AND ALSO CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN UNTIL 1 AM EDT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEA4VY RAINS WILL FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. NNNN LHW
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, Sep 6, 7:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 6 minutes before
MIZ008-022000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 750 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN UNTIL 1 AM EDT... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST UPPER MICHIGAN: CHIPPEWA...MACKINAC... THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AROUND THE WARNING AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BRW
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 9:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
MIZ008-015-070230 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 920 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH... AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN. THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH VALID UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN. THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN EAST UPPER MICHIGAN... CHIPPEWA...MACKINAC... THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AROUND THE WARNING AREA. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 945 PM FOR NORTHWEST CHIPPEWA COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR PERSONS IN MACKINAC COUNTY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INTO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. LHW
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 10:10 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
MIZ008-015-070300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAULT STE MARIE MI 1010 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH... AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT FOR EAST UPPER MICHIGAN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT FOR CHIPPEWA AND MACKINAC COUNTIES OF EAST UPPER MICHIGAN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1030 PM FOR CHIPPEWA COUNTY AND ADJOINING WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR MACKINAC COUNTY AND ADJOINING WATERS. AT AROUND 930 PM EDT...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RECORDED A WIND GUST OF 63 MILES AN HOUR...OR 55 KNOTS...AT WHITEFISH POINT IN NORTHWEST CHIPPEWA COUNTY. AT 835 PM THE WEATHER OFFICE IN SAULT STE MARIE RECORDED A WIND GUST OF 30 MILES AND HOUR... OR 26 KNOTS... AT SANDERSON FIELD. THIS IS A DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. LISTEN FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE INTO SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. LHW
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 60 min |
| Sep 6, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa | 65 min |
| Sep 6, 9:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 69 min |
| Sep 6, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa | 65 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.