Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 4:28 AM EDT for Manistee County, Michigan. It was in force for 32 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 9, 2000, 4:28 AM EDT (08:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Manistee County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 145 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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 9, 4:42 AM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Manistee, 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 147 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
- 322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 090828 SVRAPN MIC101-090900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 428 AM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MANISTEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 500 AM EDT * AT 423 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF MANISTEE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... MANISTEE AND EASTLAKE AROUND 435 AM EDT REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH ALONG W4ITH DIME SIZED HAIL. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES. JPB/BAK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Iosco | 55 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.