Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 7:42 PM EDT for Ingham County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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
- May 9, 2000, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ingham County, MI
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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 9, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 53 E | Leslie, 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 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 224 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
071 WUUS53 KGRR 092342 SVRGRR MIC065-100030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 742 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... INGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 741 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LESLIE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EATON RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LESLIE AROUND 750 PM EDT MASON AROUND 755 PM EDT STOCKBRIDGE AROUND 805 PM EDT WEBBERVILLE AROUND 810 PM EDT THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. NNNN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Muskegon | 35 min |
| May 9, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 26 min |
| May 9, 2:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 45 min |
| May 9, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 50 min |
| May 9, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 41 min |
| May 9, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 32 min |
| May 9, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 56 min |
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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.