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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 19, 1996Benzie County, Leelanau County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1996, 6:25 PM EDT for Benzie County, Leelanau County, Michigan. It was in force for 65 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, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
65 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 12:00Z, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-325 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1271 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 192227
SVRAPN
MIC019-029-089-192330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
625 PM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN  MICHIGAN
 
   ...BENZIE COUNTY...CHARLEVOIX COUNTY...LEELANAU COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
AT 620 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM JUST WEST OF STURGEON BAY...SOUTHWEST TO 15 MILES WEST OF
FRANKFORT.
 
THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH...AND WILL EFFECT
FRANKFORT...LELAND AND CHARLEVOIX BETWEEN 630 PM AND 715 PM.
 
DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT
LIGHTNING WILL BE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN
...AND SOMETIMES DO...PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF THESE STORMS MOVE INTO YOUR AREA.
 
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, 4 hours 26 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
Special weather statement, May 19, 6:13 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
MIZ016>021-024>026-030-031-036-042-200015-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
614 PM EDT SUN MAY 19 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM EDT FOR ALL OF
NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WATCH EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR ALL OF NORTHERN LOWER
MICHIGAN. SOME CITIES AFFECTED BY THE WATCH INCLUDE
ALPENA...TRAVERSE CITY...HOUGHTON LAKE...CADILLAC...MANISTEE...
CHEBOYGAN... GAYLORD... AND ATLANTA.

STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE ACROSS LAKE
MICHIGAN INTO THE NORTHERN LOWER PENINSULA DURING THE EVENING.
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... VERY
HEAVY RAIN... LARGE HAIL... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING.

PERSONS IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD STAY ALERT FOR THE
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. STAY
TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR LATER
STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

OX

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, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXEmmet57 min
May 19, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix65 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.