Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

Issued

Jul 8, 1996, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)

Expired

Jul 8, 1996, 2:35 PM EDT

In force

48 min

Issued by

NWS Marquette, MI

Area

Whole counties

Counties Alger County, MI, Delta County, MI, Marquette County, MI, Menominee County, MI

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KMQT 081747
SVRMQT
MIC003-041-103-109-081835-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
147 PM EDT (1247 PM CDT) MON JUL 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 235 PM EDT (135 PM CDT)
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

   ...SOUTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN ALGER COUNTY

IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

   ...EXTREME NORTHERN MENOMINEE COUNTY
   ...DELTA COUNTY
 
AT 140 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR
WATSON IN SOUTHERN MARQUETTE AND AT GLADSTONE IN DELTA COUTNY. THE
STORM IN DELTA COUNTY HAS PRODUCED 3/4 INCH HAIL NEAR GLADSTONE. THE
STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO
ISABELLA AND TRENARY BY 215 PM EDT.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  STAY
INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

&

NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 7, 10:04 PM EDT, 15 hours 43 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1000 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996

LATEST NSAT VIS/IR LOOP SHOWS FEW AC OVER UPPER AND LARGER AREA OF TSRA
OVER NRN MN ASSOCIATED WITH H5 LOW AND AREA OF PIVA AND DIVQ FORCING AS
VORT SWINGS TO THE EAST. KMQT 88D INDICATES WEAKENING AREA OF SHRA NEAR
P59 AND BETWEEN RHI AND IRON RIVER.

WITH VERTICAL TOTALS INCREASING TO LEVLELS AOA 30 AND TOTAL TOTALS AOA
55 BY AROUND 12Z...FROM GRIDDED DATA AND LOOK AT 00Z INL SNDG...PLENTY
OF INSTABILITY FROM 5H COLD POCKET EVEN WITH UNFAVORABLE DIURNAL
COMPONENT. LO LVL MOISTURE NOT ABUNDANT OVER NRN MN SRN MANITOBA WITH
DWPTS IN LOW TO MID 50S... BUT PLENTY OF CONVECTION NEVERTHELSS. EXPECT
INCREASING TSRA/SHRA CHANCES FOR WRN UPPER BTWN 08Z AND 12Z AND INTO
CNTRL BY 11Z AND EAST BY 13Z. MAY NEED TO REALIGN ZONES TO REFLECT WEST
TO EAST PROGRESSION OF POPS.

FORECAST TEMPS GENERALLY LOOK ON TRACK.

JLB

In the hours before

MIZ010-011-081800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
128 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR EASTERN IRON AND
NORTHERN DICKINSON COUNTIES.l..

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON BUT
THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED INTO MARQUETTE
AND MENOMINEE COUNTIES.

DGP

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.