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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Gaylord, MI

April 6, 1997Missaukee County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 1997, 1:44 PM EDT for Missaukee County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 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: Apr 6, 1997, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
Expired: Apr 6, 1997, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Missaukee County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 6, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 224 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 853 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KAPN 061744 RRA
SVRAPN
MIZ514-537-MIC009-029-047-079-113-061845-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
144 PM EDT SUN APR 6 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  ANTRIM COUNTY - NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
  CHARLEVOIX COUNTY - NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
  EMMET COUNTY - NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
  KALKASKA COUNTY - NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
  MISSAUKEE COUNTY - NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT
 
* SOME TOWNS AFFECTED
    PETOSKEY
    MANCELONA
    KALKASKA
    LAKE CITY

* AT 140 PM EDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
  CHARLEVOIX TO 10 MILES WEST OF KALKASKA TO CADILLAC MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE STORMS WILL BE AT PETOSKEY...MANCELONA..KALKASKA AND LAKE
  CITY BY 200 PM. AT 140 PM WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 60 MPH WERE
REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS IN TRAVERSE CITY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS ALONG
WITH DESTRUCTIVE HAIL. WHEN A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...
MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME.

BH/JAH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 6, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Crawford, Missaukee, Roscommon	49 min
Apr 6, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Cheboygan, Otsego	60 min
Apr 6, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Roscommon	60 min
Apr 6, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Antrim, Charlevoix, Kalkaska	61 min
Apr 6, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Emmet	61 min
Apr 6, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Alpena, Montmorency	46 min
Apr 6, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Oscoda	31 min
Apr 6, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Presque Isle	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.