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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

August 6, 1996Mecosta County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 6, 1996, 8:33 PM EDT for Mecosta County, Michigan. It was in force for 42 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: Aug 6, 1996, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
Expired: Aug 6, 1996, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Mecosta County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 6, 8:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Remus, 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 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.

NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 6, 1:54 PM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 1:54 PM EDT, 6 hours 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 8:21 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 7, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	69 min
Aug 7, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Gratiot, Isabella, Montcalm	68 min
Aug 7, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ionia, Montcalm	59 min
Aug 7, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton	43 min
Aug 7, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton	44 min
Aug 7, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton	65 min
Aug 7, 6:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton	41 min
Aug 7, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Berrien	85 min
Aug 7, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton, Ingham	61 min
Aug 7, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton	61 min
Aug 7, 7:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Clinton, Eaton, Ingham	2 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.