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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Marquette, MI

July 14, 1995Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 1995, 7:39 PM CDT (00:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 1995, 8:40 PM CDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Menominee County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 125 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4426 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
4426 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1615 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.8

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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 14, 4:44 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
544 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 787 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DICKINSON...MENOMINEE...DELTA
AND SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES
IRON MOUNTAIN...MENOMINEE...ESCANABA AND MANISTIQUE.

AT 540 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
LARGE HAIL WAS MOVING THROUGH STEPHENSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 15 MILES AND HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS.

KEEP LISTENING TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO FOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS AND WARNINGS.

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:45 PM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
MIZ011>014-150400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
544 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 787 IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT...

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR DICKINSON...MENOMINEE...DELTA
AND SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. THE WATCH INCLUDES
IRON MOUNTAIN...MENOMINEE...ESCANABA AND MANISTIQUE.

AT 540 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
LARGE HAIL WAS MOVING THROUGH STEPHENSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 15 MILES AND HOUR.

A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOS.

KEEP LISTENING TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADIO FOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS AND WARNINGS.

GFF
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:45 PM CDT, 54 minutes before
MIZ001>007-009>014-150400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
745 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 789 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT
EDT FOR BARAGA...GOGEBIC...HOUGHTON...IRON...ONTONAGON...ALGER...
MARQUETTE... AND LUCE COUNTIES...

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 787 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN UPPER MICHIGAN...DELTA...DICKINSON...
MENOMINEE AND SCHOOLCRAFT...

AT 740 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WHITEFISH POINT THROUGH MARQUETTE TO WATERSWEET.  INDIVIDUAL STORMS
IN THIS LINE ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES
...AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
^
MOVE QUICKLY TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OR HALL IF A TORNADO
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

KEEP TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR THE LATEST EMERGENCY WEATHER BULLETINS.

MACHOWSKI
Special weather statement, Jul 14, 6:49 PM CDT, 50 minutes before
MIZ001>007-009>014-150400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
745 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 789 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT
EDT FOR BARAGA...GOGEBIC...HOUGHTON...IRON...ONTONAGON...ALGER...
MARQUETTE... AND LUCE COUNTIES...

...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 787 REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN UPPER MICHIGAN...DELTA...DICKINSON...
MENOMINEE AND SCHOOLCRAFT...

AT 740 PM EDT RADAR SHOWED LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
WHITEFISH POINT THROUGH MARQUETTE TO WATERSWEET.  INDIVIDUAL STORMS
IN THIS LINE ARE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES
...AND MAY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL.
^
MOVE QUICKLY TO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM OR HALL IF A TORNADO
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

KEEP TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO
FOR THE LATEST EMERGENCY WEATHER BULLETINS.

MACHOWSKI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMQTDelta45 min
Jul 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft45 min
Jul 14, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTLuce33 min
Jul 14, 11:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee31 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.