Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 5:22 PM EDT for Manistee County, Michigan. It was in force for 53 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, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1996, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manistee County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAPN 122124 SVRAPN MIC101-MIZ535-122215- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 522 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MICHIGAN ...MANISTEE COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 520 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF MANISTEE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. THE STORM WILL HIT THE LAKE MICHIGAN SHORELINE BETWEEN PORTAGE LAKE AND PIERPORT BY 530 PM. THE STORM WILL HIT COPEMISH AROUND 545 PM. EXPECT HAIL 3/4 INCH IN DIAMETER AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS WITH THIS STORM. DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW. JAH/BH
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, Apr 12, 2:09 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before
MIZ042-041-036-035-122015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 208 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN UNTIL 8 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ARENAC...IOSCO...OGEMAW AND GLADWIN COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM EDT. SOME COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE WEST BRANCH...EAST TAWAS...GLADWIN AND STANDISH. THE WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE HURON AND SAGINAW BAY. SEVERE WEATHER HAS ALREADY OCCURRED THIS AFTERNOON IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. PEOPLE IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF LARGE HAIL AND DAMAdGING WINDS. END/MK/JH
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:24 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
MIZ035-036-041-042-122220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 416 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR OGEMAW...GLADWIN...IOSCO AND ARENAC COUNTIES. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF GLADWIN...WEST BRANCH...TAWAS CITY AND STANDISH. THE WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE HURON AND THE SAGINAW BAY. SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED IN THE WATCH AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WEATHER THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVE THROUGH THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. KEITH
Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:26 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
MIZ035-036-041-042-122220- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 416 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINED IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR OGEMAW...GLADWIN...IOSCO AND ARENAC COUNTIES. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF GLADWIN...WEST BRANCH...TAWAS CITY AND STANDISH. THE WATCH ALSO INCLUDES THE COASTAL WATERS OF LAKE HURON AND THE SAGINAW BAY. SEVERE WEATHER WAS REPORTED IN THE WATCH AREA EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD REMAIN ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WE ATHER THIS EVENING. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVE THROUGH THE WATCH AREA THIS EVENING. KEITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Wexford | 46 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.