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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 12, 2000Mason County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 1:45 PM EDT for Mason County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 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, 1:45 PM EDT (17:45 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Mason County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 12, 1:00 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 146 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-05-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 15 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2000-05-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-508 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRROceana45 min
May 12, 2:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRMuskegon50 min
May 12, 2:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRNewaygo48 min
May 12, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRROttawa49 min
May 12, 2:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan50 min
May 12, 3:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRKent40 min
May 12, 3:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRIonia, Montcalm40 min
May 12, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRLake25 min
May 12, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRROsceola25 min
May 12, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClare27 min
May 12, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRClare33 min
May 12, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan, Ottawa37 min
May 12, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan30 min
May 12, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRNewaygo37 min
May 12, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan, Barry32 min
May 12, 7:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGRRAllegan3 hr
May 12, 7:54 PM EDTTornado WarningGRRAllegan, Kalamazoo51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.