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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 3:27 PM EDT for Roscommon County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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
- May 12, 2000, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Roscommon County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1301 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 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 121929 SVRAPN MIC143-122015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 327 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROSCOMMON COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 327 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF HOUGHTON LAKE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH... HOUGHTON LAKE AROUND 335 PM EDT ST. HELEN AROUND 400 PM EDT A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES...AND CANN DO SO RATHER QUICKLY. MOVE INTO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. CAMPBELL/SMITH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 61 min |
| May 12, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 50 min |
| May 12, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 48 min |
| May 12, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 44 min |
| May 12, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Arenac, Gladwin | 37 min |
| May 12, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 42 min |
| May 12, 4:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Iosco | 35 min |
| May 12, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Manistee, Wexford | 5 hr |
| May 12, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee, Roscommon | 50 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Leelanau | 49 min |
| May 12, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Charlevoix, Emmet | 46 min |
| May 12, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 24 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.