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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 12, 2000Arenac County, Gladwin County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 4:23 PM EDT for Arenac County, Gladwin County, Michigan. It was in force for 37 min. 2 reports 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: May 12, 2000, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Arenac County, MI, Gladwin County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
May 12, 4:36 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Gladwin, MI	A tornado briefly touched down in far northeast Gladwin County and crossed into Arenac County lifting near interstate 75.
May 12, 4:38 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Alger, MI	A tornado briefly touched down in far northeast Gladwin County and crossed into Arenac County lifting near interstate 75.

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
May 12, 1:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KAPX 122023
TORAPN
MIC011-051-122100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
423 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ARENAC COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
  GLADWIN COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF ALGER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL REACH...
  ALGER AROUND 430 PM EDT
  OMER AROUND 450 PM EDT
  TWINING AROUND 455 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES
SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.

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, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Roscommon	48 min
May 12, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Ogemaw	44 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.