Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 5:21 AM EDT for Antrim County, Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 min. 5 reports 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
- May 31, 1998, 5:21 AM EDT (09:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 6:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Antrim County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:24 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Kalkaska, MI | Strong thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees. |
| May 31, 5:25 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 70 | Kalkaska, MI | Strong straight-line thunderstorm winds tore the roof off a building. |
| May 31, 5:26 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 78 | Kalkaska, MI | Strong thunderstorm wind gusts to 90 mph tore the roof off one home and toppled trees onto several others. |
| May 31, 5:35 AM EDT | Tornado F0 | Torch Lake, MI | The brief tornado touchdown did little damage. |
| May 31, 5:50 AM EDT | Tornado F1 | Kalkaska, MI | A tornado intermittently on the ground for around 7 miles destroyed one mobile home and damaged 2 others. The combination of tornadic and straight-line winds also downed numerous trees. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1457 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
385 WFUS1 KAPN 310923 RRA TORAPN MIC009-079-MIZ514-311010- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 521 AM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ANTRIM COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN NORTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN KALKASKA COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 610 AM EDT * AT 521 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF KALKASKA MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO THREAT IS EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST AT... DARRAGH BY 531 AM EDT ANTRIM BY 534 AM EDT MANCELONA BY 534 AM EDT PERSONS IN AND NEAR THESE AREAS SHOULD IMMEDIATELY MOVE INTO A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AWAY FROM WINDOWS. OX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa, Mackinac | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Leelanau | 50 min |
| May 31, 3:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Manistee | 61 min |
| May 31, 4:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Wexford | 46 min |
| May 31, 4:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford, Kalkaska, Missaukee, Roscommon | 47 min |
| May 31, 4:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Manistee | 50 min |
| May 31, 4:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse, Wexford | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford, Roscommon | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Otsego | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Crawford | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Montmorency, Oscoda | 46 min |
| May 31, 5:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 46 min |
| May 31, 6:04 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Oscoda | 51 min |
| May 31, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Arenac, Iosco | 63 min |
| May 31, 6:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Alpena | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.