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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 1998, 12:28 AM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 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 26, 1998, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iosco 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 260430 RRA TORAPN MIC069-MIZ539-260515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 1228 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... IOSCO COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHEASTERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 115 AM EDT * AT 1225 AM EDT... SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF LUPTON...NEAR SOUTH BRANCH. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST AT... LONG LAKE BY 1235 AM EDT HALE BY 1240 AM EDT PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MOVE INTO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NORCROSS/HURLEY &
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, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Kalkaska | 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, 1:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 63 min |
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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.