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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Marquette, MI

August 7, 1996Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1996, 5:06 AM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 54 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
Aug 7, 1996, 5:06 AM EDT (09:06 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1996, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 297 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3575 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 1996-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 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
3575 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 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
Aug 7, 3:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic60 min
Aug 7, 3:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon56 min
Aug 7, 5:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron55 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.