Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI

May 18, 1996Luce County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1996, 8:13 AM EDT for Luce County, Michigan. It was in force for 42 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 18, 1996, 8:13 AM EDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 1996, 8:55 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Luce County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 281 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 805 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 1996-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
805 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
167 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 2:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.