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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI

June 10, 2000Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 2000, 4:26 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports 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 10, 2000, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 2000, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDTTornado F1Gwinn, MI
Jun 10, 5:05 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 55 EGwinn, MI8 to 12 inch diameter trees down.

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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 246 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.

506 
WFUS53 KMQT 102025
TORMQT
MIC103-102115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
426 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN.

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT.

* AT 425 PM EDT... MARQUETTE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 23
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MARQUETTE OR 8 MILES WEST OF GWINN... MOVING
  EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
  GWINN                           AT 435 PM EDT..
  LITTLE LAKE                     AT 440 PM EDT..
  CARLSHEND                       AT 450 PM EDT..

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

DD/CA


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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTAlger32 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.