Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 12:18 PM EDT for Alger County, Michigan. It was in force for 42 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 27, 2001, 12:18 PM EDT (16:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Alger County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:20 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 27, 12:30 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Kiva, MI | Dime sized hail. |
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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1400 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMQT 271619 SVRMQT MIC003-271700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 1218 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALGER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR TRENARY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MUNISING. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... TRENARY AT 1240 PM EDT REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONrE INCH IN DIAMETER. HAIL OF THIS SIZE CAN DAMAGE WINDOWS...ALUMINUM SIDING...AND VEHICLES WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND GUSTS. $$ LAT...LON 4632 8709 4618 8706 4620 8665 4640 8673 KC WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MQT/
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Schoolcraft | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 64 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.