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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 1998, 8:17 PM EDT for Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 63 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 25, 1998, 8:17 PM EDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1998, 9:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kalkaska County, MI
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 216 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1190 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KAPN 260019 RRA TORAPN MIC079-260120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 817 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KALKASKA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 920 PM EDT * AT 815 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MANCELONA OR 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF DARRAGH MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST AT... PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MOVE INTO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HIRSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Otsego | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 8:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix, Cheboygan | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 8:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Montmorency, Presque Isle | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Crawford | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Leelanau | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Oscoda | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Otsego | 65 min |
| Jun 25, 10:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 62 min |
| Jun 25, 11:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 11:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 49 min |
| Jun 25, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 12:28 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Iosco | 47 min |
| Jun 26, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 63 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.