Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Northern Indiana

June 12, 1999Branch County, Hillsdale County, Michigan

NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1999, 6:48 PM EDT for Branch County, Hillsdale County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min. 4 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 12, 1999, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1999, 7:35 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Northern Indiana
Area
Whole counties

Counties Branch County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindHillsdale, MIPower lines and a tree reported down.
Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindKinderhook, MISKYWARN spotter reported power lines and one tree down.
Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDTThunderstorm WindKinderhook, MISKYWARN spotter reported power lines downed on north side of Lake George. A three-foot diameter tree fell onto a garage. Parts of roofs also were damaged.
Jun 12, 7:00 PM EDTHail 0.88Kinderhook, MI

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 nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 328 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 1999-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1376 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXBlackford, Jay51 min
Jun 12, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXJay33 min
Jun 12, 6:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash33 min
Jun 12, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWhitley46 min
Jun 12, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXNoble47 min
Jun 12, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXWabash36 min
Jun 12, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXVan Wert35 min
Jun 11, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWXHillsdale31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.