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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Marquette, MI

June 8, 2000Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2000, 11:35 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 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 8, 2000, 11:35 PM CDT (04:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2000, 12:05 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Menominee County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMQT 090435
SVRMQT
MIC109-090505-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1235 AM EDT (1135 PM CDT) FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MENOMINEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 1205 AM CDT (105 AM EDT)

* AT 1130 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTHEAST OF STEPHENSON. THE STORM WAS
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  M-35 NEAR ARTHUR BAY 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MENOMINEE AT 1150 PM CDT

LARGE HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER IS LIKELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE
WARNED AREA...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

KC

 
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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, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:25 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1125 PM EDT THU JUN 8 2000

THIS WL BE SHORT AND SWEET AS RADAR NEEDS WATCHING...

MAIN FORECAST CONCERS FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS IS PCPN AND THREAT OF
SEVERE WX. NNE WNDS OFF OF LAKE SUPER HAVE CARRIED LOW CLDS AND FOG
UP THE HILL TO KMQT OFFICE... AND THIS MARINE LAYER MAY PROVE TO BE
SOMEWHAT OF A STABILIZING INFLUENCE OVNT NEAR THE LAKESHORE W/
RESPECT TO WINDS.

WL CONT GOING FCST OF MORE NUMEROUS SHRWS AND TSTMS FOR THE OVNT PD
AS H85 THETA E RIDGE LIFTS NWD AT THE SAME TIME AS SOME DIFFERENTIAL
DIVERGENCE DVLPS. AT THE SAME TIME...DECENT S/WV TOPPING THE H7 RDG
PER 00Z ETA...AND IF MCS CAN GET GOING..CORFIDI VECTORS CARRY THIS
RIGHT INTO UPR MI...W/ H85 THETA RDG/DWPT AXIS OF 13-15C SITTING
RIGHT OVHD AT 09Z.

TWEAKED TEMPS IN A FEW ZONES TO BETTER MATCH CRNT CONDITIONS/DWPTS.

.MQT...NONE.

DESROSIERS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:04 PM CDT, 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1204 AM EDT FRI JUN 9 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....    H

1200 AM    4 MI NE OF MENOMINEE      MI   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/00   MENOMINEE

AJ

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.