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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

August 16, 1995Van Buren County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT for Van Buren County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 16, 1995, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Van Buren County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 241 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 739 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1995-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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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, Aug 16, 1:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 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, 1 hour 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan41 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.