Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

June 25, 1998Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1998, 4:53 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 62 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, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 1998, 5:55 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 1998-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -365 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1160 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

083 
WUUS1 KMQT 252054 RRA
SVRMQT
MIC103-252155-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
453 PM EDT THU JUN 25 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MARQUETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 555 PM EDT

* AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WITCH LAKE. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WITCH LAKE AT 505 PM EDT
  PALMER AT 530 PM EDT

LARGE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND DAMAGING WINDS UP TO 60
MPH ARE LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...SEEK SAFETY IN A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.


JFM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Iron, Menominee65 min
Jun 25, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDelta64 min
Jun 25, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee61 min
Jun 25, 5:54 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTDelta31 min
Jun 25, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft59 min
Jun 25, 6:36 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTAlger64 min

Nearby

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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.