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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI

July 14, 1995Iron County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 1995, 6:25 PM CDT for Iron County, Michigan. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 14, 1995, 6:25 PM CDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1995, 7:10 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Iron County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3957 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -171 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1478 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMQT 142324
TORMQT
MIC071-150010-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
725 PM EDT (625 PM CDT) FRI JUL 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 710 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST UPPER MICHIGAN

   ...SOUTHEASTERN IRON COUNTY
 
AT 620 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR IRON RIVER.
THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MILEbS AN HOUR AND WILL REACH CRYSTAL
FALLS AT 650 PM CDT.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 14, 12:33 PM CDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE, MI
133 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1019 AM     HANCOCK                   MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       55 MPH GUST LARGE LIMBS
                                           BROKEN

1025 AM     DOLLAR BAY                MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       HIGHWAY M26 CLOSED
                                           TREES DOWN/POWER OUT

1030 AM     HOUGHTON                  MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       TREES/POWER LINES DOWN

1035 AM     BUMBLETOWN                MI   WIND
07/14/95    KEWEENAW                       67 MPH GUST
1039 AM     LAKE LINDEN                MI    WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                         TREES DOWN ALONG
                                             POST ROAD

DAO

Local storm report, Jul 14, 12:34 PM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE, MI
133 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 1995

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1019 AM     HANCOCK                   MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       55 MPH GUST LARGE LIMBS
                                           BROKEN

1025 AM     DOLLAR BAY                MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       HIGHWAY M26 CLOSED
                                           TREES DOWN/POWER OUT

1030 AM     HOUGHTON                  MI   WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                       TREES/POWER LINES DOWN

1035 AM     BUMBLETOWN                MI   WIND
07/14/95    KEWEENAW                       67 MPH GUST
1039 AM     LAKE LINDEN                MI    WIND DAMAGE
07/14/95    HOUGHTON                         TREES DOWN ALONG
                                             POST ROAD

DAO

Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 41 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.

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Special weather statement, Jul 14, 4:45 PM CDT, 1 hour 40 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.

GFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 8:37 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	43 min
Jul 14, 9:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton	52 min
Jul 14, 9:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Keweenaw	45 min
Jul 14, 4:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	62 min
Jul 14, 5:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Menominee	27 min
Jul 14, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic, Iron	56 min
Jul 14, 5:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Gogebic, Iron	58 min
Jul 14, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Iron, Marquette	43 min
Jul 14, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	62 min
Jul 14, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	60 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.