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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 12, 2000Allegan County, Kalamazoo County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at May 12, 2000, 7:54 PM EDT for Allegan County, Kalamazoo County, Michigan. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: May 12, 2000, 7:54 PM EDT (23:54 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Allegan County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI

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, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 KGRR 122358 COR
TORGRR
MIC005-077-130045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED.CORRECTED HEADER TO TORNADO
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
758 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN KALAMAZOO COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN
  EASTERN ALLEGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 754 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND TRAINED
  WEATHER SPOTTERS INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTH OF
  OTSEGO...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PLAINWELL...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   PLAINWELL AROUND 805 PM EDT

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS
STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LAKRGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4247 8581 4235 8569 4247 8555 4271 8559

MWH/EJO
NNNN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 2:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Oceana	45 min
May 12, 2:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Muskegon	50 min
May 12, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Newaygo	48 min
May 12, 2:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ottawa	49 min
May 12, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan	50 min
May 12, 3:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Kent	40 min
May 12, 3:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ionia, Montcalm	40 min
May 12, 1:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Mason	30 min
May 12, 2:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Lake	25 min
May 12, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Osceola	25 min
May 12, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	27 min
May 12, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	33 min
May 12, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan, Ottawa	37 min
May 12, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan	30 min
May 12, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Newaygo	37 min
May 12, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan, Barry	32 min
May 12, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	GRR	Allegan	3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.