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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Marquette, MI

September 6, 1995Delta County, Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 6, 1995, 8:38 PM EDT for Delta County, Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 6, 1995, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
Expired
Sep 6, 1995, 9:40 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Delta County, MI, Menominee County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 1995-09-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1314 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 00:00Z on 1995-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 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
1314 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-210 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
951 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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, 4:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 43 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 41 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, 43 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, 41 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, 36 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 6, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTLuce, Schoolcraft61 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.