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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Marquette, MI

June 9, 2000Gogebic County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2000, 1:34 AM CDT for Gogebic County, Michigan. It was in force for 46 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 9, 2000, 1:34 AM CDT (06:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2000, 2:20 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Gogebic County, MI

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 1:45 AM CDT	Hail 0.75	Watersmeet, 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

Minneapolis, MN (KMPX), launched 00:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 348 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: 2264 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2431 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 403 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 33.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMQT 090634
SVRMQT
MIC053-090720-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
234 AM EDT (134 AM CDT) FRI JUN 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GOGEBIC COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN.

* UNTIL 220 AM CDT (320 AM EDT).

* AT 132 AM CDT... MARQUETTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES WEST OF CRYSTAL FALLS OR 3 MILES WEST
  OF WATERSMEET... MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THIS STORM IS EXPECTED TO REACH WATERSMEET BY 140 AM...

HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. GO INSIDE A
STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LAKE GOGEBIC. CAMPERS SHOULD
MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IMMEDIATELY!

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, 3 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 10:25 PM CDT, 3 hours 9 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, 2 hours 30 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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Local storm report, Jun 9, 1:06 AM CDT, 28 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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 10:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	34 min
Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	30 min
Jun 9, 12:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	61 min
Jun 9, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	66 min
Jun 9, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	48 min
Jun 9, 1:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	46 min
Jun 9, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	63 min
Jun 9, 2:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	31 min
Jun 9, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	60 min
Jun 9, 4:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Marquette	47 min
Jun 9, 4:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton	48 min
Jun 9, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	61 min
Jun 9, 5:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	65 min
Jun 9, 5:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton	36 min
Jun 9, 6:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	46 min
Jun 9, 6:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	49 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.