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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

February 11, 1999Calhoun County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 11, 1999, 7:16 PM EST for Calhoun County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 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
Feb 11, 1999, 7:16 PM EST (00:16 UTC)
Expired
Feb 11, 1999, 8:05 PM EST
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 11, 5:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1999-02-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 110 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1999-02-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 321 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1175 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
321 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
467 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Feb 11, 3:09 PM EST, 4 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 3:09 PM EST, 4 hours 7 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
300 PM EST TUE FEB 9 1999

SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS LOOKS TO BE A REAL THREAT FOR SW MI LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS SQUALL LINE RACES NE OUT OF WI/IL/MO.
LOSS OF LOW CLOUDS HAS DESTABALIZED THE AIR MASS AHEAD OF THE FRONT
WITH SFC TEMPS NOW UP NEAR 70 AND DEWPNTS NR 60.  WATCH FROM SPC SEEMS
TO BE A CERTAINTY FOR ALL OF THE FCST AREA AS 100KT MID LVL JET PUNCHES
NEWD AND SURFACE LOW MOVES THROUGH WI AND DEEPENS.

TEMPS DROP ABRUPTLY WITH FROPA SOME 20 TO 30 DEGREES.  THE COLD AIR
QUICKLY UNDERCUTTING THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY HAS RESULTED IN AN EPISODE OF
FRZG RAIN IN PLACES TO OUR WEST TODAY.  WILL ACCOUNT FOR THIS IN THE
FCST FOR LATER TONIGHT HOWEVER NOT EXPECTING FRZG RAIN FOR TOO LONG
SINCE CAA SHOULD BE DEEPER THAN WHAT IS GOING ON TO THE WEST NOW.

DRY SLOTTING AFFECTS THE FCST AREA ON FRI MORNING SO MAY TAKE UNTIL
LATER IN THE DAY TO REALLY GET SOME ORGANIZED SNOW SHOWERS GOING. ALSO
A LOT OF DIRECTIONAL WIND SHEAR PRESENT. DEEPER MOISTURE AND BETTER
INVERSION HEIGHTS ARRIVE ON FRI NGT AND THAT/S WHEN SOME PSBL ACCUMS
WILL BE MENTIONED.

THERMAL TROF MOVES OUT QUICKLY DURING THE DAY SATURDAY PER AVN MODEL AND
SHOULD BRING A DIMINISHING OR ENDING TREND IN THE SNOW SHOWER ACTIVITY.

MEADE

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 11, 8:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRBarry, Kent64 min
Feb 11, 9:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRIonia, Montcalm60 min
Feb 11, 9:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRREaton60 min
Feb 11, 9:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClare, Mecosta64 min
Feb 11, 9:46 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClinton, Gratiot, Isabella64 min
Feb 11, 10:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRIngham45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.