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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

July 15, 1995Clinton County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 3:08 PM EDT for Clinton County, Michigan. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 1995, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1995, 4:01 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Clinton County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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: 2755 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 798 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -170 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -10.8

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 15, 2:34 PM EDT, 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:39 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:46 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 15, 2:47 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

MIZ051-056>058-064-065-071-072-160000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
226 PM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995

... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN UNTIL 8 PM. ...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALLEGAN...VAN BUREN ...
KALAMAZOO... BARRY ... KENT... IONIA... MONTCALM AND OTTOWA COUNTIES
UNTIL 8 PM.

AT 230 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN BARRY...
SOUTHERN IONIA AND EASTERN MONTCALM COUNTIES.  THESE STORMS ARE MOVING
EAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.  MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AND SOME
COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR AND HAIL OVER 3/4 OF AN
INCH.

RESIDENTS ARE URGED TO KEEP ALERT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AND TO BE
PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER ON SHORT NOTICE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	25 min
Jul 15, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Gratiot	63 min
Jul 15, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Montcalm	32 min
Jul 15, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Isabella	61 min
Jul 15, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Gratiot	47 min
Jul 15, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham	51 min
Jul 15, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham	28 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1995 Every 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.