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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 19, 1996Emmet County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 6:03 PM EDT for Emmet County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1996, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Emmet County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 210 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1728 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 144 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
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 192205
SVRAPN
MIC047-192300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
603 PM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  MICHIGAN
 
   ...EMMET COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 6 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN
BEAVER ISLAND...30 MILES WEST-NORTHWEST OF HARBOR SPRINGS. THE STORM WAS
MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL REACH CROSS VILLAGE AROUND
630 PM.
 
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH
...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN...AND
SOMETIMES DO...PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGE TO STRUCTURES...DESTRUCTIVE
HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME.
 
 
NORCROSS/SvMITH

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, 4 hours 4 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.

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, 5:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXArenac46 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, 6:25 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

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.