Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 8:14 PM EDT for Luce County, Schoolcraft County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 6, 1995, 8:14 PM EDT (00:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 6, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Luce County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Sault Ste Marie, MI (KY62), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 1077 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 289 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 338 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 12.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KMQT 070013 RRA SVRMQT MIC095-153-070115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 814 PM EDT WED SEP 6 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHEAST UPPER MICHIGAN ...LUCE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN ...SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTY AT 811 PM EDT...MARQUETTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS 10 MILES EAST OF GRAND MARAIS TO MUNISING. MOVEMENT OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE TO THE EASTSOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS WILL REACH NEWBERRY 835 PM AND WILL REACH SENEY AT 825 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF YOU ARE INSIDE...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
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, 4:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 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, 4:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 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, 7:55 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
MIZ001>004-009-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 755 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST UPPER MICHIGAN CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR THESE COUNTINES IN WEST UPPER MICHIGAN: KEWEENAW...HOUGHTON...ONTONAGON...GOGEBIC...AND BARAGA. A NUMBER OF SPOTTERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. KC
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 7:57 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
MIZ001>004-009-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 755 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST UPPER MICHIGAN CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR THESE COUNTINES IN WEST UPPER MICHIGAN: KEWEENAW...HOUGHTON...ONTONAGON...GOGEBIC...AND BARAGA. A NUMBER OF SPOTTERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN...SMzALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. KC
Special weather statement, Sep 6, 8:02 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
MIZ001>004-009-070500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 802 PM EDT WED SEP 06 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR WEST UPPER MICHIGAN CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CANCELLED THE TORNADO WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR THESE COUNTINES IN WEST UPPER MICHIGAN: KEWEENAW...HOUGHTON...ONTONAGON...GOGEBIC...AND BARAGA. A NUMBER OF SPOTTERS REPORTED HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. KC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta, Menominee | 62 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.