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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Gaylord, MI

September 16, 1995Muskegon County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 16, 1995, 9:19 PM EDT for Muskegon County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 16, 1995, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Sep 16, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Muskegon County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 903 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 801 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 
WUUS1 KMKG 170123 RRA
SVRMKG
MIC121-170215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI
919 PM EDT SAT SEP 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MUSKEGON MI  HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING      EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN
 
   ...NORTHERN MUSKEGON COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN.
 
 
AT 920 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
JUST OFF SHORE OF NORTHWEST MUSKEGON  COUNTY 5 MILES WEST OF MONTAGUE.
THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS...3/4 INCH OR LARGER
HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST
AT 25 MPH AND SHOULD ENTER MONTAGUE AND WHITEHALL BY 930 PM...AND
LAKEWOOD CLUB BY 950 PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
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, Sep 16, 8:40 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

MIZ034-035-170200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUGHTON LAKE MI
840 PM EDT SAT SEP 16 1995

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH PART OF NORTH CENTRAL LOWER
MICHIGAN...

AT 835 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH ROSCOMMON
COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF HOUGHTON LAKE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30
MPH AND WILL REACH THE ST HELEN AREA BY 850 PM THEN MOVE INTO THE
WEST BRANCH AREA BY 900 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY PASS THROUGH ROSCOMMON AND OGEMAW
COUNTIES.

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH MOVE INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE
STORMS PASS.

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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.