Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Gaylord, MI

Issued

May 29, 1998, 1:58 AM EDT (05:58 UTC)

Expired

May 29, 1998, 2:45 AM EDT

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Gaylord, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Missaukee 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.

068 
WUUS1 KAPN 290557 RRA
SVRAPN
MIC113-290645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
158 AM EDT FRI MAY 29 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MISSAUKEE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 245 AM EDT

* AT 156 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF LAKE CITY OR 4 MILES WEST OF
  JENNINGS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  JENNINGS AT 202 AM EDT
  LAKE CITY AT 207 AM EDT
  MERRITT AT 228 AM EDT


PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN INDOORS UNTIL THE
STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF
AT LEAST 60 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN MAKE DRIVING VERY DIFFICULT...
MOTORISTS IN THE STORMS PATH SHOULD PULL OFF TO THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.

EME

NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 10:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
1019 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 1998

WILL MAKE A FEW CHANGES FOR THE OVERNIGHT ACROSS NRN LWR/ERN UPR ZONE
FCSTS...MOST NOTABLY WITH OVERNIGHT LOW TEMPS. MAIN FCST CONCERN
OBVIOUSLY WILL BE THE THREAT FOR TSTMS AND PSBLY SVR WX. KAPX 00Z
SOUNDING REAL IMPRESSIVE AS FAR AS SFC BASED INSTBY WITH L.I.'S OF -8
AND CAPES NEARING 3150 J/KG. PROBLEM IS LACK OF FOCUS...WITH ONLY
SUBTLE WIND CHANGES (THUS WEAK SFC CONVERGENCE) AT THIS TIME WITH THE
FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN LAKE MI. 21Z RUC DATA INDICATES MAXIMUM 1000/850
MB MSTR FLUX CONVERGENCE TO REMAIN SW AND EVENTUALLY S OF NRN LWR
THROUGH 09Z...THUS WOULD CONTINUE TO EXPECT LACK OF GOOD FOCUSING
MECHANISM FOR ANYTHING WIDESPREAD ACROSS NRN LWR COUNTIES. HWVR...
CHANCES WILL BE THERE ACROSS NRN LOWER GIVEN THE SFC TRIGGERING
POTENTIAL WITH THE FRONT HANGING UP A BIT ACROSS THAT REGION.

AS FOR SVR WX CHANCES...THE STRONGEST LOW LVL FOCUS REMAINING SOUTH OF
THE FCST AREA WOULD BE ONE DRAWBACK. ANOTHER IS THE LOWERING SFC BASED
INSTBY THIS EVENING...TEMP DROPS IN THE PAST FEW HOURS HAVE PROBABLY
CAUSED A 1000 J/KG OR SO REDUCTION IN CAPES SINCE 00Z. AND
FINALLY...INCREASING MID LVL MSTR LATE WILL HELP BOOST K-INDICIES AND
THUS PCPN CHANCES... BUT AT THE SAME TIME WILL DECREASE CONDITIONAL
INSTBY/COOLING POTENTIAL ALOFT. THUS WILL KEEP CHC POPS FOR NRN LWR
OVERNIGHT...HIGHEST IN SRN ZONES CLOSER TO BETTER LOW LVL MSTR FLUX
CONVERTGENCE. WILL LIKELY BOOST OVERNIGHT LOWS UP A NOTCH GIVEN CURRENT
READINGS/DWPTS WELL ABV MOS... ESP ACRS NRN LWR STILL SOUTH OF THE
NEARLY STALLED-OUT FNT.

HURLEY

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.