Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 6:15 PM EST for Clinton County, Michigan. It was in force for 20 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 6:35 PM EST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clinton County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 733 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 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, Jan 18, 1:45 PM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
MIZ056-057-064-065-071>073-080-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 145 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR THE SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTIES OF BRANCH... CALHOUN... KALAMAZOO... BARRY...VAN BUREN... OTTAWA... ALLEGAN... AND KENT. COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GRAND RAPIDS... KALAMAZOO... GRAND HAVEN... BATTLE CREEK... AND HASTINGS. AT 140 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A FAST MOVING LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF JOLIET ILLINOIS SOUTH TO NEAR CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH WERE REPORTED IN CHAMPAIGN AS THIS LINE PASSED THROUGH. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE SOUTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN BY 3 PM AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN BY 330 PM. EVERYONE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. FELVER
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 1:52 PM EST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
MIZ056-057-064-065-071>073-080-182045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 145 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR THE SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTIES OF BRANCH... CALHOUN... KALAMAZOO... BARRY...VAN BUREN... OTTAWA... ALLEGAN... AND KENT. COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GRAND RAPIDS... KALAMAZOO... GRAND HAVEN... BATTLE CREEK... AND HASTINGS. AT 140 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A FAST MOVING LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH THROUGH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM 20 MILES WEST OF JOLIET ILLINOIS SOUTH TO NEAR CHAMPAIGN ILLINOIS. WIND GUSTS TO 65 MPH WERE REPORTED IN CHAMPAIGN AS THIS LINE PASSED THROUGH. THE LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE SOUTH END OF LAKE MICHIGAN BY 3 PM AND MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN BY 330 PM. EVERYONE IN SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN SHOULD KEEP ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS. FELVER
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 3:41 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MIZ056-057-064-065-071>073-080-182245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 341 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FOR THE SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN COUNTIES OF BRANCH... CALHOUN... KALAMAZOO... BARRY...VAN BUREN... OTTAWA... ALLEGAN... AND KENT. COMMUNITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE GRAND RAPIDS... KALAMAZOO... ALLEGAN... MIDDLEVILLE... AND ROCKFORD. AT 337 PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A FAST MOVING LINE OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH THROUGH EASTERN ILLINOIS AND WESTERN INDIANA. THE LINE OF SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH HOLLAND AROUND 430 PM AND GRAND RAPIDS BY 510 PM. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. PEOPLE SHOULD SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS OUTSIDE IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING SITUATION. FELVER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Van Buren | 55 min |
| Jan 18, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Branch, Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 30 min |
| Jan 18, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.