Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 42 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
- May 12, 2000, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iosco County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 4:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 5:03 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 5:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | East Tawas, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 1301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KAPX 122036 SVRAPN MIC069-122115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 433 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IOSCO COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 430 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WHITTEMORE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF TAWAS CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... EAST TAWAS AROUND 450 PM EDT 9 MILES SOUTH OF AU SABLE AROUND 500 PM EDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCC9ASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES...AND CAN DO SO RATHER QUICKLY. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 61 min |
| May 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 50 min |
| May 12, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 48 min |
| May 12, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Roscommon | 48 min |
| May 12, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 44 min |
| May 12, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Arenac, Gladwin | 37 min |
| May 12, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Iosco | 35 min |
| May 12, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Manistee, Wexford | 5 hr |
| May 12, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Roscommon | 50 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix, Emmet | 46 min |
| May 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 24 min |
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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.