Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 7:26 AM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 9, 2000, 7:26 AM EDT (11:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2000, 8:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marquette County, MI
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 438 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
- 2436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMQT 091125 SVRMQT MIC103-091215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 726 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 815 AM EDT * AT 724 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARQUETTE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WITCH LAKE AT 740 AM EDT LARGE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. PETRO N
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 9, 3:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 9, 3:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 16 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 310 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 2000 A QUICK DISCUSSION WITH ACTIVE WEATHER. UPPER LEVEL PATTERN SHOWS TROUGH OVER THE WEST COAST WITH A RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL CONUS. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN DAKOTAS WITH A WARM FRONT EXTENDING EAST THROUGH MINNESOTA AND NORTHERN WISCONSIN. KMQT/KDLH/KMVX RADARS AND LDS SHOW A LONG BAND OF THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF THE FRONT IN AREA OF STRONG 300MB DIVERGENCE/1000-700MB MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. LOW WILL SLOWLY PUSH NORTHEAST AND TRY TO LIFT THE FRONT THROUGH THE CWA TODAY. AGAIN SOME UNCERTAINTY WITH HOW MUCH PROGRESS THE FRONT WILL MAKE...WITH ETA MUCH FARTHER NORTH THAN THE AVN/NGM. WITH UNCERTAINTY WILL CONTINUE BLEND/HEDGE BETWEEN THE SOLUTIONS. EXPECT WARMEST TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE SOUTHERN CWA CLOSER TO THE WARM SECTOR. COOLER TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES IN COOLER AIR/LINGERING CLOUD COVER/EAST WIND OFF LAKE SUPERIOR. CURRENT TSRA NORTH OF FRONT WILL PUSH OVER THE LAKE AND INTO CANADA THIS MORNING. 850MB DEWPOINTS +14C MOVE NORTH OF THE CWA THIS MORNING...AS WELL AS 1000-700MB MOISTURE CONVERGENCE. 1000-500MB RH <30 PERCENT BEGINS TO WORK INTO THE CWA LAST THIS AFTERNOON. LOOK FOR LEAST CLOUDS ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST CWA WITH SOME CLOUDS HANGING AROUND THE NORTHERN TIER WITH POSSIBLE SLOWER MOVEMENT OF FRONT. LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES ON SATUR DAY BRING THE NEXT CHANCE FOR PRECIPITATION. .MQT...NONE. JHB
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 9, 2:06 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
206 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 2000
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0200 AM GAASTRA MI 1 INCH HAIL
06/09/00 IRON
AJ
NThe office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 30 min |
| Jun 9, 1:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 2:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 2:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 2:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Ontonagon | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 63 min |
| Jun 9, 3:59 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 31 min |
| Jun 9, 4:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 60 min |
| Jun 9, 5:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson, Marquette | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 5:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Houghton | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 5:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 6:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Ontonagon | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 6:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Houghton | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 7:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga | 46 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.