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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI

June 8, 2000Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2000, 10:21 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 34 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
Jun 8, 2000, 10:21 PM CDT (03:21 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2000, 10:55 PM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Menominee County, MI

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 8, 10:50 PM CDTHail 0.75Menominee, 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 403 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2000-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 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
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

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The text

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

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 8, 6:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 6:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
700 PM EDT THU JUN 8 2000

COMPLEX CONFIGURATION OF LAKE BREEZES AND SFC BNDRYS ACTING TO
GENERATE CU AND SHRWS FM THE BAYFIELD PENINSULA TO S OF IWD. CU ARE
INCRSG ALG OUTFLOW BNDRY FM LAST EVE/S CONVECTION ACRS NRN MN...IN
AREA OF INCRSG LOW LVL FLOW AND SUB ZERO SFC LI/S PER MSAS ANALYSIS.
NRLY WNDS OFF LAKE SUPER FCST TO PROVIDE A LCL STABILIZING EFFECT IN
FAR WRN UPR...BUT CAPES FCST TO INCRS BTWN NOW AND 00Z ALG WI BORDER
W/ MESO ETA SOUNDINGS PUMPING VALUES AOA 1300 JOULES FM IMT TO MNM.
W/ DWPTS ACRS NRN WI IN THE MID TO UPR 50S...IN INSTBY FCST TO INCRS
OVR THE NEXT FEW HRS...IT SEEMS PRUDENT TO REMOVE TIMING ON PCPN IN
WI BORDER CNTY ZONES.

.MQT...NONE.

DESROSIERS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee30 min
Jun 9, 12:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron61 min
Jun 9, 1:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson66 min
Jun 9, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic46 min
Jun 9, 1:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee48 min
Jun 9, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon46 min
Jun 9, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron63 min
Jun 9, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron31 min
Jun 9, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson60 min
Jun 9, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Marquette47 min
Jun 9, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton48 min
Jun 9, 4:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga61 min
Jun 9, 5:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon65 min
Jun 9, 5:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton36 min
Jun 9, 6:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga46 min
Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette49 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.