Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 4:40 PM EDT for Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 35 min. 4 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, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Iosco County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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, 4:45 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 4:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 5:03 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Whittemore, MI | |
| May 12, 5:08 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | East Tawas, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 123 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 WFUS53 KAPX 122041 TORAPN MIC069-122115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 440 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... IOSCO COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 435 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF ALGERS...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL REACH... WHITTEMORE AROUND 450 PM EDT NATIONAL CITY AROUND 455 PM EDT TAWAS CITY AND EAST TAWAS CITY AROUND 510 PM EDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. 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, 4:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Arenac, Gladwin | 37 min |
| May 12, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 42 min |
| May 12, 4:46 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.