Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 26, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT for Eaton County, Ingham County, Michigan. It was in force for 30 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Eaton County, MI, Ingham County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Lansing, 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 511 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
266 WFUS53 KGRR 242301 TORGRR MIC045-065-242330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 700 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... INGHAM COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN EASTERN EATON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN * UNTIL 730 PM EDT * AT 659 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER EATON RAPIDS...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHWEST OF EATON RAPIDS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... DIMONDALE...HOLT AROUND 705 PM EDT LANSING...EAST LANSING...EDGEMONT PARK...WAVERLY AROUND 710 PM EDT HASLETT AROUND 715 PM EDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$ DUKESHERER/GRAHAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 2:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 115 min | |
| Oct 24, 2:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 115 min | |
| Oct 24, 3:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 11:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 71 min | |
| Oct 24, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 38 min | |
| Oct 24, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 38 min | |
| Oct 24, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 38 min | |
| Oct 24, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Ottawa | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 1:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Allegan, Kent, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 15 min |
| Oct 24, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Muskegon, Ottawa | 40 min |
| Oct 24, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry, Kalamazoo | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 6:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Barry, Eaton | 27 min |
| Oct 24, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham, Jackson | 64 min |
| Oct 24, 6:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Clinton, Ionia | 52 min |
| Oct 24, 7:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | GRR | Allegan, Kent, Ottawa | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 50 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.