Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 2:04 PM EDT for Allegan County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 1995, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allegan County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 739 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KGRR 161804 RRA
SVRGRR
MIC005-161845-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
204 PM EDT WED AUG 16 1995
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR
PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY
IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF LOWER MICHIGAN
ALLEGAN
...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FOR THE
COUNTY JUST MENTIONED
AT 200 PM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
ALLEGAN COUNTY... ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF ALLEGAN... 30 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST
NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL REACH WAYLAND BY 230 PM... THEN MOVE
TO MIDDLEVILLE BY 245 PM EDT. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...
DAMAGING WINDS... AND TORENTIAL RAINFALL.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. IF INDOORS...STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.
MJKWhat 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, Aug 16, 8:04 AM EDT, 6 hours before
MIZ056-057-161330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 804 AM EDT WED AUG 16 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER OTTAWA COUNTY... AT 800 AM EDT... WEATHER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN OTTAWA COUNTY NEAR COOPERSVILLE...20 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH... AND WILL REACH SPARTA BY 830 AM... AND CEDAR SPRINGS BY 900 AM. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF HEAVY RAINFALL... SMALL HAIL... AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. STAY INDOORS AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE AREA TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MJK
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
MIZ050-515-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 145 PM EDT WED AUG 16 1995 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH MUSKEGON COUNTY... AT 145 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTY OF MUSKEGON. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING...CONTINUOUS HEAVY THUNDER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALLS. RADAR NOTED NO SEVERE WEATHER ACCOMPANYING THE STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST SLOWLY AT 10 MPH. WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM WAS UNDER 15 MPH. NO HAIL WAS INDICATED.
Special weather statement, Aug 16, 1:53 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
MIZ050-515-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 145 PM EDT WED AUG 16 1995 ...HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING THROUGH MUSKEGON COUNTY... AT 145 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM MOVING SLOWLY THROUGH THE WEST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTY OF MUSKEGON. THE STORM WILL PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING...CONTINUOUS HEAVY THUNDER AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALLS. RADAR NOTED NO SEVERE WEATHER ACCOMPANYING THE STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST SLOWLY AT 10 MPH. WINDS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM WAS UNDER 15 MPH. NO HAIL WAS INDICATED.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.