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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

June 23, 1997Clinton County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1997, 4:40 PM EDT for Clinton County, Michigan. It was in force for 20 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1997, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Clinton County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 23, 4:50 PM EDT	Hail 1	Ovid, MI	Public reported quarter-sized hail in Sleepy Hollow State Park.

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.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 23, 12:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 12:31 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before

MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-077>081-241200-

SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1215 PM EDT MON JUN 23 1997

...SEVERE WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN...

DISPATCHERS...PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO YOUR EMERGENCY
MANAGERS.

...DISCUSSION...

A WARM FRONT... WHICH STRETCHED FROM NEAR LUDINGTON SOUTHEAST TO LAKE
ST CLAIR AT 1100 AM... WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTH THROUGH THE DAY
TODAY... BRINGING WARMER AND MOISTER AIR INTO THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER
OF LOWER MICHIGAN. THIS AIR MASS WILL MAKE THE ATMOSPHERE QUITE
UNSTABLE ACROSS THE AREA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE NORTH OF INTERSTATE 96... NEAR
THE WARM FRONT. HOWEVER... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE IN THE WARM HUMID AIR MASS SOUTH OF THE FRONT. THUNDERSTORM
DEVELOPMENT MAY OCCUR FROM EARLY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNSET... BUT
PRIMARILY BETWEEN 300 PM AND 700 PM.

...POTENTIAL HAZARDS AND FORECAST THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT...

THE MAJORITY OF ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE... BUT THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY
APPROACH SEVERE LEVELS. THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL OF
AROUND A HALF INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH. STORM
MOVEMENT WILL BE GENERALLY EAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH.

...SPOTTER ACTIVATION...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL TELEVISION...RADIO OR CABLE
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION AND ANY
FURTHER UPDATES CONCERNING THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN SOUTHWEST
LOWER MICHIGAN.

TRH

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 12:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham	64 min
Jun 23, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.