Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 1996, 7:12 PM EDT for Alpena County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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
- Aug 14, 1996, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Alpena County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 142311 SVRAPN MIZ539-MIC007-150000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 712 PM EDT WED AUG 14 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT IN NORTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN ...EASTERN ALPENA COUNTY AND A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR THE NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE HURON AROUND... ...PRESQUE ISLE PT TO ALABASTER AT 708 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR HERRON ALONG M-32 15 MILES WEST OF ALPENA. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL HIT ALPENA AND LONG LAKE BY 745 PM. HAIL THE SIZE OF A QUARTFER WAS REPORTED IN HERRON WITH THIS STORM AT 705 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, 3 hours 37 minutes 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, 3 hours 36 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
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
MIZ016>019-021>024-027>030-033>036-041-042-150200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 521 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 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 ARE PETOSKEY...CHEBOYGAN... ALPENA...GAYLORD...GRAYLING...TAWAS CITY...STANDISH...WEST BRANCH...AND HOUGHTON LAKE. A COLD FRONT OVER THE CENTRAL UPPER PENINSULA AND LAKE MICHIGAN WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MOVE EASTWARD THIS EVENING. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR CONTINUING UPDA0TES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. BETTEN-SHOBE
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, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Emmet | 40 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 |
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.