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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 19, 1996Arenac County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 5:34 AM EDT for Arenac 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, 5:34 AM EDT (09:34 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1996, 6:20 AM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Arenac County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 77 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
2494 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 190935
SVRAPN
MIC011-191020-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION AND COASTAL WATERS...

IN NORTH CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...ARENAC COUNTY
 
AT 530 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST
WEST OF ALGER IN WESTERN ARENAC COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH AND WILL PASS THROUGH MAPLE RIDGE AND TWINING BY 600 AM
EDT.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. STRONG GUSTY
WINDS WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME.

SWR/MK

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 3:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXManistee, Wexford38 min
May 19, 3:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXBenzie, Leelanau46 min
May 19, 4:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMissaukee, Roscommon44 min
May 19, 5:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXGladwin34 min
May 19, 5:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOgemaw45 min
May 19, 6:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix30 min
May 19, 7:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXEmmet43 min
May 19, 7:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCheboygan45 min
May 19, 5:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix40 min
May 19, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXEmmet57 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix65 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXBenzie, Leelanau65 min
May 19, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCheboygan31 min
May 19, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXAntrim, Otsego41 min
May 19, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXOtsego54 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.