Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT for Otsego County, Michigan. It was in force for 44 min. 6 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1996, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Otsego County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Vanderbilt, MI | |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Gaylord, MI | |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Gaylord, MI | |
| Jul 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gaylord, MI | |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Gaylord, MI | |
| Jul 8, 5:55 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gaylord, MI |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1414 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 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 082059 SVRAPN MIC137-082145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 501 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN MICHIGAN ...NORTHERN OTSEGO COUNTY AT 455 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR NEAR ELMIRA ALONG THE OTSEGO COUNTY/ANTRIM COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT GAYLORD AND VANDERBILT BY 515PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL. HAIL 2 INCHES DEEP WAS REPORTED IN EAST JORDAN. DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAILz...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW. &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Chippewa | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Presque Isle | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Charlevoix | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Kalkaska | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Montmorency | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw, Roscommon | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 68 min |
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.