Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 19, 1996Manistee County, Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 3:32 AM EDT for Manistee County, Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 38 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: May 19, 1996, 3:32 AM EDT (07:32 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 4:10 AM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Manistee County, MI, Wexford County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 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 190733
SVRAPN
MIC101-165-190810-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
332 AM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 410 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...EASTERN MANISTEE COUNTY
   ...WEXFORD COUNTY
 
AT 330 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH INTO WEXFORD AND EASTERN MANISTEE
COUNTIES. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT WELLSTON AND DUBLIN IN EASTERN
MANISTEE COUNTY BY 345 AM AND BOON... YUMA... AND MESICK IN WEXFORD
COUNTY BY 4 AM. STRONG WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME.

BAK/SWR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 3:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Benzie, Leelanau	46 min
May 19, 4:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Missaukee, Roscommon	44 min
May 19, 5:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Gladwin	34 min
May 19, 5:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Ogemaw	45 min
May 19, 5:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	46 min
May 19, 6:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Charlevoix	30 min
May 19, 7:12 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Emmet	43 min
May 19, 7:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Cheboygan	45 min
May 19, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Charlevoix	40 min
May 19, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Emmet	57 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Charlevoix	65 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Benzie, Leelanau	65 min
May 19, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Cheboygan	31 min
May 19, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Antrim, Otsego	41 min
May 19, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Otsego	54 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.