Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Gaylord, MI

August 8, 2001Chippewa County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2001, 12:04 PM EDT for Chippewa County, Michigan. It was in force for 71 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
Aug 8, 2001, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 2001, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
71 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 16:05 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
Aug 8, 12:25 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 50 EEckerman, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 8, 9:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2001-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1217 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2001-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1217 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-151 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1370 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

268 
WUUS53 KAPX 081606
SVRAPN
MIC033-081715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
1204 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHIPPEWA COUNTY IN EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT

* AT NOON EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A   
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES WEST OF PARADISE TO 
  37 MILES WEST OF ST. IGNACE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH...
  PARADISE AROUND 1215 PM EDT.
  ECKERMAN...TROUT LAKE AROUND 1220 PM EDT.
  STRONGS AROUND 1225 PM EDT.
  RACO AROUND 1235 PM EDT.
  SAULT SAINT MARIE AROUND 1245 PM 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 11:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMackinac70 min
Aug 8, 12:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXMackinac40 min
Aug 8, 12:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCharlevoix, Emmet47 min
Aug 8, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXCheboygan42 min
Aug 8, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXIosco, Ogemaw65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.