Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 1:14 PM EDT for Charlevoix County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 8, 2000, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charlevoix County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:23 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | East Jordan, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1154 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
033 WUUS53 KAPX 081719 SVRAPN MIC029-081800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 114 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 RETRANSMITTED FOR THE MEDIA...NO OTHER CHANGES THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHARLEVOIX COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 110 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST OF EAST JORDAN...OR OVER ELLSWORTH...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... BOYNE CITY AROUND 130 PM EDT CLARION...WALLOON LAKE...BOYNE FALLS AROUND 140 PM EDT REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. HIRSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Otsego | 57 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.