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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Gaylord, MI

October 1, 1996Kent County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Oct 1, 1996, 3:50 AM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 35 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
Oct 1, 1996, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired
Oct 1, 1996, 4:25 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Kent County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-10-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 00:00Z on 1996-10-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 164 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KGRR 010759 COR
TORGRR
MIC081-010825-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED !!! THIS IS A TEST !!!
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTED...TEST!!!
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
352 AM EDT TUE OCT 1 1996

***THE PREVIOUS MESSAGE WAS INCORRECT PLEASE DISREGARD***
***THIS WAS ONLY A TEST ***
*

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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.