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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 27, 1996Branch County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 6:52 AM EST for Branch County, Michigan. It was in force for 38 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
Feb 27, 1996, 6:52 AM EST (11:52 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1996, 7:30 AM EST
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Branch County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 00:00Z on 1996-02-27Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 26, 10:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRMuskegon, Oceana48 min
Feb 27, 6:40 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRBranch50 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.