Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 18, 1996Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1996, 9:58 AM EDT for Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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: May 18, 1996, 9:58 AM EDT (13:58 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1996, 10:55 AM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Wexford County, MI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 18, 10:10 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	S Wexford County, 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 670 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -299 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1502 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 181359
SVRAPN
MIC165-181455-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
958 AM EDT SAT MAY 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1055 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...WEXFORD COUNTY
 
AT 955 AM EDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD WEXFORD COUNTY AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM WILL
REACH THE COMMUNITY OF HOXEYVILLE BY 1010 AM EDT AND BOON BY 1020
AM EDT.

LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS OVER 55 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
THUNDERSTORM.
 
DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTN@ING
WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW.

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

Special weather statement, May 18, 9:32 AM EDT, 26 minutes before

MIZ026-027-MIZ032-033-181435-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
931 AM EDT SAT MAY 18 1996

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST LOWER
MICHIGAN...

AT 925 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF CADILLAC AND MANTON IN
WEXFORD COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE
KINGSLEY...FIFE LAKE...SHARON AND KALKASKA.

GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE
POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

PERSONS IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER QUICKLY.

BAK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Chippewa	47 min
May 18, 10:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Missaukee	29 min
May 18, 10:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Kalkaska	49 min
May 18, 10:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Mackinac	27 min
May 18, 10:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Crawford	19 min
May 18, 11:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Gladwin	50 min
May 18, 11:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	37 min
May 18, 12:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.