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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 9, 2001Alpena County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 9, 2001, 6:05 PM EDT for Alpena County, Michigan. It was in force for 55 min. 5 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 9, 2001, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Alpena County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 9, 6:07 PM EDT	Hail 1.25	Bolton, MI
Jun 9, 6:20 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Cathro, MI
Jun 9, 6:26 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Alpena Arpt, MI	Pilot reported tornado at the Alpena airport. No damage was reported.
Jun 9, 6:40 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Alpena, MI
Jun 9, 6:52 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Ossineke, 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2343 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 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 
WFUS53 KAPX 092205
TORAPN
MIC007-092300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
605 PM EDT SAT JUN 9 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALPENA COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  A DEVELOPING TORNADO 4 MILES NORTHEAST OF LONG RAPIDS...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES NORTH OF LACHINE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO WILL REACH...
  CATHRO AROUND 615 PM EDT
  ALPENA...DEVILS LAKE AROUND 630 PM EDT

AT 605 PM...LAW ENFORCEMENT IN FAR NORTHERN ALPENA COUNTY REPORTED A 
FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR M-65.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES
SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Cheboygan	28 min
Jun 9, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Presque Isle	73 min
Jun 9, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Presque Isle	63 min
Jun 9, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Ogemaw	46 min
Jun 9, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	51 min
Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	APX	Gladwin	43 min
Jun 9, 6:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	APX	Ogemaw	35 min

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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.