Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
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.
- 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
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, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 41 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.