Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 4:35 PM EDT for Cheboygan County, Emmet County, Michigan. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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
- Aug 14, 1996, 4:35 PM EDT (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheboygan County, MI, Emmet County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Pellston, MI | |
| Aug 14, 5:17 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Mullet Lake, 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 801 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAPN 142035 SVRAPN MIC031-047-142115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 435 PM EDT WED AUG 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS... IN MICHIGAN ...CHEBOYGAN COUNTY...EMMET COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS AT 435 PM....DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR VANDERBILT. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH... AND WILL REACH WOLVERINE BY 450 PM AND NEAR INDIAN RIVER BY 505 PM. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH NO ADVANCE WARNING...SO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. &
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, Aug 14, 3:35 PM EDT, 1 hour before
@1 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NWS D/T ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH... ARENAC GLADWIN ROSCOMMON ANTRIM CHARLEVOIX KALKASKA MISSAUKEE CHEBOYGAN CRAWFORD EMMET OTSEGO ALCONA ALPENA IOSCO MONTMORENCY OGEMAW OSCODA PRESQUE ISLE SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...PETOSKEY...CHEBOYGAN... ALPENA...GAYLORD...GRAYLING...TAWAS CITY...STANDISH...WEST BRANCH...AND HOUGHTON LAKE. AT 335 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NORTH-SOUTH LINE OF SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CHEBOYGAN TO JUST EAST OF HOUGHTON LAKE. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECENTLY DEVELOPED JUST WEST OF THE CADILLAC AREA AND NORTH OF THE TRAVERSE CITY AREA. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A COLD FRONT OVER THE CENTRAL UPPER PENINSULA AND LAKE MICHIGAN WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PRESS EASTWARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WHICH MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. KEEP ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR CONTINUING UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SPRIGGS
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 3:36 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
MIZ016>019-021>024-027>030-033>036-041-042-150200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 336 PM EDT WED AUG 14 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH... ARENAC GLADWIN ROSCOMMON ANTRIM CHARLEVOIX KALKASKA MISSAUKEE CHEBOYGAN CRAWFORD EMMET OTSEGO ALCONA ALPENA IOSCO MONTMORENCY OGEMAW OSCODA PRESQUE ISLE SOME COMMUNITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...PETOSKEY...CHEBOYGAN... ALPENA...GAYLORD...GRAYLING...TAWAS CITY...STANDISH...WEST BRANCH...AND HOUGHTON LAKE. AT 335 PM...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A NORTH-SOUTH LINE OF SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CHEBOYGAN TO JUST EAST OF HOUGHTON LAKE. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS HAVE RECENTLY DEVELOPED JUST WEST OF THE CADILLAC AREA AND NORTH OF THE TRAVERSE CITY AREA. MOVEMENT IS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A COLD FRONT OVER THE CENTRAL UPPER PENINSULA AND LAKE MICHIGAN WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY PRESS EASTWARD LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING PRODUCING SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WHICH MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. KEEP ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR CONTINUING UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADIC THUNDERSTORMS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SPRIGGS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Roscommon | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Otsego | 54 min |
| Aug 14, 4:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Emmet | 58 min |
| Aug 14, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Otsego | 57 min |
| Aug 14, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Oscoda | 54 min |
| Aug 14, 5:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Otsego | 67 min |
| Aug 14, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 48 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.