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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 19, 1996Charlevoix County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT for Charlevoix County, Michigan. It was in force for 40 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, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1996, 6:25 PM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Charlevoix County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 224 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: 1728 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -59 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 192146
SVRAPN
MIC029-LMZ501-192225-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
545 PM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 625 PM EDT FOR THE PEOPLE ON

    BEAVER ISLAND

         IN NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN

...THIS WARNING ALSO INCLUDES THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF THE
ISLAND...

AT 545 PM... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM AROUND 15 MILES EAST-SOUTHEAST OF BEAVER ISLAND...
MOVING TO THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.  THIS THUNDERSTORM
WILL REACH BEAVER ISLAND AT AROUND 6 PM.

IF YOU ARE ON BEAVER ISLAND... GO TO A REINFORCED SHELTER NOW.
DAMAGING WIND... LARGE HAIL... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL ACCOMPANY
THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS THE ISLAND.

ALL MARINERS AROUND THE ISLAND SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE HARBOR NOW...
AS THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCE@SS OF 50 KNOTS... AND
LOCALLY VERY ROUGH WATERS.

NORCROSS/SMITH

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

Local storm report, May 19, 1:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MICHIGAN
200 PM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

043j5 AM    CADILLAC                  MI   MARBLE SIZED HAIL
05/19/96   WEXFORD COUNTY

0555 AM    WESTERN OGEMAW            MI   QUARTER - SIZED
05/19/96   OGEMAW COUNTY

SWR/KOPSKY

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, 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, 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, 1996 Every 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.