Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1999, 4:28 PM EDT for Berrien County, Michigan. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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
- Jun 11, 1999, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1999, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Whole counties
County Berrien County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Berrien Spgs, MI | Trees and power lines down in Berrien Springs. |
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | New Buffalo, MI | Trees and power lines down in New Buffalo reported by Berrien County sheriff. |
| Jun 11, 4:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sawyer, MI | Trees and power lines down in Sawyer reported by Berrien County sheriff. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1779 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | White | 32 min |
| Jun 11, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Putnam | 62 min |
| Jun 11, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Fulton | 62 min |
| Jun 10, 10:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Cass | 49 min |
| Jun 11, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.