Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Issued

Apr 5, 1997, 8:50 PM EST (01:50 UTC)

Expired

Apr 5, 1997, 9:50 PM EST

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Allegan County, MI

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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.

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TTAA00 KGRR 060149 RRA
SVRGRR
MIC005-060250-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS MI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 950 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...ALLEGAN COUNTY
 
AT 846 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GRAND RAPIDS
DOPPLER RADAR 18 MILES WEST OF ALLEGAN OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
FENNVILLE MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
     SAUGATUCK               AROUND 848 PM EST
     ALLEGAN                 AROUND 910 PM EST
     PLAINWELL               AROUND 925 PM EST
     WAYLAND                 AROUND 930 PM EST

AT 835 PM...BENTON HARBOR REPORTED A WIND GUST OF 50 MPH.

FOR YOUR PROTECTION...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD RhOADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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, 8 hours 59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.