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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Marquette, MI

September 6, 1995Dickinson County, Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 6:30 PM CDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Dickinson County, MI, Marquette County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 12:00Z on 1995-09-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 657 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1995-09-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1014 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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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, Sep 6, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
MIZ001>005-009>012-070300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
455 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995

....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND PORTIONS
OF LAKE SUPERIOR UNTIL 11 PM EDT...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
VALID UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR WEST UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR.

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST AND CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN:

BARAGA...DICKINSON...GOGEBIC...HOUGHTON...IRON...KEWEENAW...MARQUETTE...
MENOMINEE...AND ONTONAGON

IT ALSO INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF MARQUETTE...HOUGHTON...IRONWOOD...AND
IRON MOUNTAIN.
>
THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM IRONWOOD TO
COPPER HARBOR TO MARQUETTE.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JV
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 3:57 PM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
MIZ001>005-009>012-070300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
455 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995

....TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND PORTIONS
OF LAKE SUPERIOR UNTIL 11 PM EDT...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH
VALID UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR WEST UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR.

THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN WEST AND CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN:

BARAGA...DICKINSON...GOGEBIC...HOUGHTON...IRON...KEWEENAW...MARQUETTE...
MENOMINEE...AND ONTONAGON

IT ALSO INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF MARQUETTE...HOUGHTON...IRONWOOD...AND
IRON MOUNTAIN.
>
THIS WATCH INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS FROM IRONWOOD TO
COPPER HARBOR TO MARQUETTE.

REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR
TORNADOES AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.
PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER"
CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

JV

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 4:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Ontonagon64 min
Sep 6, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon61 min
Sep 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton45 min
Sep 6, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga, Marquette64 min
Sep 6, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron59 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.