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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

June 10, 2000Alger County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2000, 5:28 PM EDT for Alger County, Michigan. It was in force for 32 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 10, 2000, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Alger County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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 2000-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 454 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2000-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
454 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-195 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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.

714 
WUUS53 KMQT 102128
SVRMQT
MIC003-102200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
528 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ALGER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 520 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF TRENARY. THE SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROUTE H-05 AT 545 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE SHELTER NOW IN A SMALL
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. A BASEMENT
OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION.


ALTOE

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 4:26 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMarquette49 min
Jun 10, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft64 min
Jun 10, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette48 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.