Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at May 9, 2000, 6:10 PM EDT for Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It was in force for 50 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, 6:10 PM EDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Kalamazoo County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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, 6:19 PM EDT | Hail 2 | Vicksburg, 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 nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
000 WFUS53 KGRR 092211 TORGRR MIC077-092300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 610 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KALAMAZOO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 5 MILES SOUTH OF SCHOOLCRAFT...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF THREE RIVERS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VICKSBURG AROUND 625 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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, 6:34 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 |
| May 9, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 48 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.