Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 2:59 PM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kent County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KGRR 041905 RRA SVRGRR MIC081-041930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 259 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN ...WEST CENTRAL KENT COUNTY AT 3 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST THROUGH THE GRAND RAPIDS METROPOLITAIN AREA PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 50 MILES AN HOUR. COMMUNITIES AFFECTED BY THIS STORM ARE GRANDVILLE... WALKER AND GRAND RAPIDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM GET INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY.
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 4, 2:25 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
MIZ043>045-050-044-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 225 PM EDT TUE JUL 04 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN... AT 230 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OHF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS LOCATED FROM TROY IN NORTHWEST NEWAYGO COUNTY TO ENSLEY CENTER IN SOUTHEST NEWAYGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WHITE CLOUD BY 245 PM AND BIG RAPIDS BY 315 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH. LIGHTNING IS A KILLER...IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. CA/WF
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:33 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
MIZ043>045-050-044-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 225 PM EDT TUE JUL 04 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN... AT 230 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OHF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS LOCATED FROM TROY IN NORTHWEST NEWAYGO COUNTY TO ENSLEY CENTER IN SOUTHEST NEWAYGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WHITE CLOUD BY 245 PM AND BIG RAPIDS BY 315 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH. LIGHTNING IS A KILLER...IF A THUTNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. CA/WF
Special weather statement, Jul 4, 2:34 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
MIZ043>045-050-044-042000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MUSKEGON MI 234 PM EDT TUE JUL 04 1995 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN... AT 230 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OHF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WAS LOCATED FROM TROY IN NORTHWEST NEWAYGO COUNTY TO ENSLEY CENTER IN SOUTHEST NEWAYGO COUNTY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO WHITE CLOUD BY 245 PM AND BIG RAPIDS BY 315 PM. RESIDENTS CAN EXPECT WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH AND HEAVY RAIN AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE THROUGH. LIGHTNING IS A KILLER...IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. CA/WF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton, Eaton, Ingham | 50 min |
| Jul 4, 4:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Ingham | 21 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1995Every 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.