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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 13, 1995Presque Isle County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 11:27 PM EDT for Presque Isle County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 11:27 PM EDT (03:27 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Presque Isle County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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, Alpena, 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 334 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
1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
334 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
510 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 KAPN 140330
SVRAPN
MIC141-MIZ509-140400-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALPENA MI
1127 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALPENA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHEAST LOWER PENINSULA
 
   ...NORTHERN PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY
 
  AND FOR MARINE INTERESTS ON COASTAL WATERS FROM...
 
  ...HAMMOND BAY TO ROGERS CITY
 
AT 1125 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDIACTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN PRESQUE ISLE COUNTY JUST NORTHWEST OF ROGERS
CITY...EXTENDING NORTHEAST INTO LAKE HURON. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH...AND WILL MOVE EAST OUT OVER LAKE HURON BY
MIDNIGHT. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSST WINDS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOtVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME.

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, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMason39 min
May 13, 10:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix, Cheboygan49 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.