Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 29, 1996, 9:37 PM EST for Barry County, Michigan. It was in force for 68 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 29, 1996, 9:37 PM EST (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 29, 1996, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Barry County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 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 KGRR 300238 RRA SVRGRR MIC015-300345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 937 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN ...BARRY COUNTY AT 932 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE NORTHERN END OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED OVER EASTERN ALLEGAN COUNTY EXTENDING FROM BURNINPS SOUTH THROUGH ALLEGAN. THE LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH...AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF HASTINGS...FREEPORT...DELTON...AND BANFIELD BY 1010 PM. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS GUSTS AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH... LARGE HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLEt OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BORIS
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, Oct 29, 6:35 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
MIZ064-071-077-078-300300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 635 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN: ALLEGAN BERRIEN CASS VAN BUREN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLEGAN... BENTON HARBOR... PAW PAW... SOUTH HAVEN... NILES... AND DOWAGIAC. TWO LINES OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN FROM WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS AFTER 730 PM EST. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 70 MPH. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISOLATED TORNADO AND LARGE HAIL ACCOMPANYING A FEW OF THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 730 AND 1100 PM EST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS LATE SEASON SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. CHAN
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 6:36 PM EST, 3 hours 1 minute before
MIZ064-071-077-078-300300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 635 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST TUESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN: ALLEGAN BERRIEN CASS VAN BUREN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ALLEGAN... BENTON HARBOR... PAW PAW... SOUTH HAVEN... NILES... AND DOWAGIAC. TWO LINES OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN FROM WISCONSIN AND NORTHERN ILLINOIS AFTER 730 PM EST. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WITH THESE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 70 MPH. THERE IS ALSO THE POSSIBILITY OF AN ISOLATED TORNADO AND LARGE HAIL ACCOMPANYING A FEW OF THESE STORMS. RESIDENTS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING ESPECIALLY BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 730 AND 1100 PM EST. f STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS LATE SEASON SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. CHAN
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 9:04 PM EST, 33 minutes before
MIZ065>067-072>074-079>081-300700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 904 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN MICHIGAN: BARRY BRANCH CALHOUN EATON HILLSDALE INGHAM JACKSON KALAMAZOO STJOSEPH THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LANSING...KALAMAZOO...BATTLE CREEK ...JACKSON AND HILLSDALE AT 900 PM EST... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS... THE FIRST STRETCHING FROM LANSING TO COLDWATER AND A SECOND... STRONGER LINE REACHING FROM THE LAKESHORE AREA NEAR HOLLAND SOUTH THROUGH BENTON HARBOR. THIS SECOND LINE IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS. BOTH LINES WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. BE ON THE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. DCZ
Special weather statement, Oct 29, 9:09 PM EST, 28 minutes before
MIZ065>067-072>074-079>081-300700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...COR TO WORDING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 904 PM EST TUE OCT 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES: IN MICHIGAN: BARRY BRANCH CALHOUN EATON HILLSDALE INGHAM JACKSON KALAMAZOO STJOSEPH THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LANSING...KALAMAZOO...BATTLE CREEK ...JACKSON AND HILLSDALE AT 900 PM EST... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TWO LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS... THE FIRST STRETCHING FROM LANSING TO COLDWATER AND A SECOND... STRONGER LINE REACHING FROM THE LAKESHORE AREA NEAR HOLLAND SOUTH THROUGH BENTON HARBOR. THIS SECOND LINE IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG... DAMAGING WINDS. BOTH LINES WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 45 TO 50 M PH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. BE ON THE WATCH FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO... COMMERCIAL RADIO OR TELEVISION FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. DCZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 8:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Berrien, Cass, Van Buren | 73 min |
| Oct 29, 8:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 73 min |
| Oct 29, 9:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph | 60 min |
| Oct 29, 9:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Cass, Van Buren | 28 min |
| Oct 29, 9:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch, Calhoun | 66 min |
| Oct 29, 10:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Hillsdale, Jackson | 57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.