Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1996, 10:26 AM EDT for Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 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 18, 1996, 10:26 AM EDT (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1996, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kalkaska County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 805 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -257 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 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 181427 SVRAPN MIC079-181515- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1026 AM EDT SAT MAY 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...KALKASKA COUNTY AT 1025 AM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR AROUND SHARON IN SOUTHERN KALKASKA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL EXIT THE COUNTY BY 1100 AM. STRONG WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND LARGE HAIL CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. DESTRUCTIVE WIND AND HAIL...TORRENTIAL RAIN...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING WILL OCCUR WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW. KOPSKY
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, 54 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, 9:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 57 min |
| May 18, 10:11 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 29 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.