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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

March 8, 2000Grand Traverse County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2000, 11:09 PM EST for Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 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
Mar 8, 2000, 11:09 PM EST (04:09 UTC)
Expired
Mar 8, 2000, 11:45 PM EST
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Grand Traverse County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2000-03-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 630 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, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2000-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 157 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
762 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
205 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
2.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KAPX 090410
SVRAPN
MIC055-090445-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
1109 PM EST WED MAR 8 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 1145 PM EST

* AT 1107 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRAVERSE CITY...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH...
  ACME AROUND 1120 PM EST
  MAPLETON AND WILLIAMSBURG AROUND 1125 PM EST
  OLD MISSION AROUND 1130 PM EST

REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS4 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.

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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.