Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 3:59 AM EDT for Benzie County, Leelanau 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
- May 19, 1996, 3:59 AM EDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 1996, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Benzie County, MI, Leelanau County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAPN 190800 SVRAPN MIZ514-535-536-MIC019-089-190845- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 359 AM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...BENZIE COUNTY ...LEELANAU COUNTY AT 355 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR IN GAYLORD MICHIGAN INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ONSHORE JUST NORTH OF POINT BETSIE BY 415 AM AND INTO GLEN ARBOR IN LEELANAU COUNTY BY 430 AM. VERY LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF 1 INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. BAK/SWR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee, Wexford | 38 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
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.