Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 1996, 1:34 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 12, 1996, 1:34 PM EDT (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 12, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 1:55 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Galien, 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1032 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 12, 1:06 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
MIZ064>067-071>074-077>081-121905- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 104 PM EDT FRI APR 12 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR BRANCH... CALHOUN... EATON... HILLSDALE... INGHAM... JACKSON... ALLEGAN... BARRY... BERRIEN... CASS... KALAMAZOO... ST. JOSEPH... AND VAN BUREN COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN... EFFECTIVE UTIL 700 PM EDT. SOME COMMUNITIES IN THIS WATCH INCLUDE BENTON HARBOR... SOUTH HAVEN... BATTLE CREEK... LANSING... EATON RAPIDS... HASTINGS... AND HOLLAND. AT 100 PM... WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS REACHED FROM HOUGHTON LAKE SOUTHWEST TO CHICAGO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO EFFECT PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL THEN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN THROUGH 300 PM. DURING A TORNADO WATCH... BE READY TO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND... OR TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR... IF A WARNING IS ISSUED OR IF A TORNADO IS SIGHTED. DCZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 12, 9:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana | 69 min |
| Apr 12, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mason, Oceana | 50 min |
| Apr 12, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Muskegon, Newaygo, Oceana | 64 min |
| Apr 12, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Cass, Van Buren | 67 min |
| Apr 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Saint Joseph | 50 min |
| Apr 12, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 32 min |
| Apr 12, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Hillsdale | 69 min |
| Apr 12, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 42 min |
| Apr 12, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Ottawa | 42 min |
| Apr 12, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.