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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 16, 1996Berrien County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1996, 12:17 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 28 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 16, 1996, 12:17 PM EDT (16:17 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1996, 12:45 PM EDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Berrien County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-16Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1996-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 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
495 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, May 16, 9:23 AM EDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
MIZ056>059-064>067-071>074-077>081-161500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
920 AM EDT THU MAY 16 1996

...THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY BEEN CANCELLED...

THE DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR PARTS OF SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH CENTRAL LOWER
MICHIGAN HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 900 AM...VISIBILTIES IN THE ADVISORY
AREA HAVE INCREASED TO 1 TO 3 MILES.  THE FOG IS EXPECTED TO IMPROVE
EVEN MORE WITH VISIBILITIES BECOMING GREATER THAN THREE MILES REGION
WIDE BY 11 AM.

TEW

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 1:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRBerrien29 min
May 16, 2:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGRRBerrien2 hr
May 16, 4:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGRRBerrien12 hr

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.