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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Gaylord, MI

August 14, 1996Cheboygan County, Emmet County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Aug 14, 1996, 4:47 PM EDT for Cheboygan County, Emmet County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 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: Aug 14, 1996, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 1996, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 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, 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, 8.8 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.

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 142047
TORAPN
MIC031-047-142145-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
447 PM EDT WED AUG 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONSS...
 
IN  MICHIGAN
 
   ...CHEBOYGAN COUNTY...EMMET COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
AT 445 PM... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLY
PRODUCING A TORNADO JUST SOUTHEAST OF PELLSTON NEAR BRUTUS. THE STORM
WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH... AND WILL APPROACH I-75 NORTH OF
RIGGSVILLE BY 515 PM.
 
ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR WOLVERINE IN CHEBOYGAN COUNTY AND
WILL HIT INDIAN RIVER BY 515 PM.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS THE
BASEMENT. GET UNDER A PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
 
JAH/OX
 
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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, 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

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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.