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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

April 12, 1996Missaukee County, Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 1:14 PM EDT for Missaukee County, Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 12, 1996, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired
Apr 12, 1996, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Missaukee County, MI, Wexford County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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 1996-04-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 12:00Z on 1996-04-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
479 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
300 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 121715
SVRAPN
MIC113-165-121800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
114 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN  MICHIGAN
 
   ...SOUTHERN MISSAUKEE COUNTY...SOUTHERN WEXFORD COUNTY
 
AT 112 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF CADILLAC MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL AFFECT
MCBAIN AND VOGEL CENTER IN EXTREME SOUTHERN MISSAUKEE COUNTY.
 
BY 130 PM...THE STORM WILL NEAR MCBAIN AND BY 145 PM...THE STORM WILL
NEAR VOGAL CENTER. EXPECT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WITH THIS STORM.
 
DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING
WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW.
 
END/MK/JH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXManistee53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.