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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2000, 6:54 PM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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 23, 2000, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 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 22:56 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 23, 7:14 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | East Tawas, MI | |
| May 23, 7:16 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Tawas City, 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
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
889 WUUS53 KAPX 232255 SVRAPN MIC069-232330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 654 PM EDT TUE MAY 23 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... IOSCO COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF EAST TAWAS...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... EAST TAWAS BY 705 PM EDT TAWAS POINT BY 710 PM EDT REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. HAIL OF THIS SIZE CAN DAMAGE WINDOWS...ALUMINUM SIDING...AND VEHICLES WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND GUSTS. ROWLEY
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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.