Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Issued

Apr 5, 1997, 7:45 PM EST (00:45 UTC)

Expired

Apr 5, 1997, 8:30 PM EST

In force

45 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Berrien County, MI

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.

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TTAA00 KGRR 060044 RRA
SVRGRR
MIC021-060130-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
745 PM EST SAT APR 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS MI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...BERRIEN COUNTY
 
AT 742 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GRAND RAPIDS
DOPPLER RADAR 30 MILES WEST OF ST JOSEPH OR 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF
GRAND BEACH MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
     MICHIANA                AROUND 750 PM EST
     BRIDGMAN                AROUND 805 PM EST
     ST JOSEPH               AROUND 815 PM EST
     NILES                   AROUND 820 PM EST

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
 
TEW

NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 5, 11:51 AM EST, 7 hours 54 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION TO DATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1149 AM EST SAT APR 5 1997

KGRR REF LOOP SHOWING THE BAND OF STEADIER RAIN LIFTING NE AWAY FROM
THE FA LATE THIS MORNING. THIS AREA OF PCPN IS JUST ALONG AND AHD OF
A WEAK WARM FRONT THAT EXTENDS FROM MKG TO TOL. THIS FIRST WAVE OF
PCPN WAS ASSOCIATED WITH AN INITIAL VORT MAX THAT EJECTED NE AWAY
FROM THE PARENT UPPER LOW OVER SE WY. XPCT A BREAK IN THE STEADIER
RAIN THIS AFTERNOON...THEREFORE WILL WORD FCST AS SCATTERED SHOWERS.

THE NEXT UPSTREAM SHRTWV IS FCST TO ROTATE NE TWRD SW LWR THIS
EVENING. THIS SHOULD BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF STEADIER RAIN TO MUCH OF
THE FA THIS EVENING...ALONG WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERTORMS...
ESPECIALLY ACROSS SW LWR. WL LEAVE IN THE FCST THE MENTION OF A
RUMBLE OF THUNDER AND GO WITH A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN THE SW
ZONES. TEMP FCST LOOKS OK...AS CLOUDS AND SHOWERS SHOULD KEEP A LID
ON READINGS WARMING TOO MUCH.

TEW

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

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.