Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 1:47 AM EDT for Chippewa County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 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 19, 2001, 1:47 AM EDT (05:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2001, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chippewa County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 2:00 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Countywide, MI | Numerous reports of trees and power lines down around Rudyard, Sugar Island, Sault Ste. Marie and Paradise. |
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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 217 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -298 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1374 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 388 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 656 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KAPX 190546 SVRAPN MIC033-190645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 147 AM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 245 AM EDT * AT 142 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF HULBERT TO 32 MILES WEST OF ST. IGNACE...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH... HULBERT AROUND 150 AM EDT. ECKERMAN AROUND 155 AM EDT. BAYVIEW CAMPGROUND AROUND 205 AM EDT. RACO AROUND 210 AM EDT. BRIMLEY AROUND 215 AM EDT. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60 AND 70 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 38 min |
| Jun 19, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 42 min |
| Jun 19, 1:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 47 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.