Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2000, 1:33 PM EDT for Cheboygan County, Otsego County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 8, 2000, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2000, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cheboygan County, MI, Otsego County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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.
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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
906 WUUS53 KAPX 081734 SVRAPN MIC031-137-081830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 133 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHEBOYGAN COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN OTSEGO COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 129 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BURT LAKE TO 7 MILES WEST OF ELMIRA...OR FROM 6 MILES SOUTH OF PETOSKEY TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BOYNE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH... ELMIRA AROUND 140 PM EDT BURT LAKE...GAYLORD...VANDERBILT AROUND 150 PM EDT INDIAN RIVER...SPARR...WOLVERINE AROUND 155 PM EDT 8 MILES SOUTH OF TOPINABEE AROUND 200 PM EDT AFTON AROUND 210 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, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.