Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Issued

Apr 5, 1997, 9:13 PM EST (02:13 UTC)

Expired

Apr 5, 1997, 10:15 PM EST

In force

62 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Rapids, MI

Area

Whole counties

Counties Kent County, MI, Ottawa County, MI

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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 060212 RRA
SVRGRR
MIC081-139-060315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS MI HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN

   ...EASTERN OTTAWA COUNTY
   ...KENT COUNTY
 
AT 911 PM EST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY GRAND RAPIDS
DOPPLER RADAR 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GRAND RAPIDS OR 5 MILES WEST OF
JENISON MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
     WALKER                  AROUND 915 PM EST
     WYOMING                 AROUND 915 PM EST
     GRAND RAPIDS            AROUND 920 PM EST
     KENTWOOD                AROUND 920 PM EST
     SPARTA                  AROUND 920 PM EST
     ROCKFORD                AROUND 930 PM EST
     CEDAR SPRINGS           AROUND 935 PM EST
     LOWELL                  AROUND 945 PM EST

AT 9 PM...THE HOLLAND AIRPORT REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 61 MPH WITH
THIS STORM.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH. PEOPLE OUTSIDE
SHOULD MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

TEW
 

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NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 5, 11:51 AM EST, 9 hours 22 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.