Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 2:13 PM EDT for Cheboygan County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2002, 2:13 PM EDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cheboygan County, MI
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Afton, MI | A few trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 11:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 1197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -228 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WUUS53 KAPX 011813
SVRAPN
MIC031-011900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
212 PM EDT THU AUG 1 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHEBOYGAN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST LOWER MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
* AT 209 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 9 MILES SOUTH OF INDIAN RIVER TO
8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOYNE CITY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH...
AFTON AROUND 220 PM
REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60 AND 80 MPH ALONG
WITH DIME SIZED OR LARGER HAIL. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN DOWN TREES AND
POWER LINES.
LAT...LON 4522 8425 4523 8469 4533 8469 4539 8460
4536 8447The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena, Presque Isle | 59 min |
| Jul 31, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 105 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 63 min | |
| Aug 1, 8:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa, Mackinac | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 8:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 8:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 8:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa, Mackinac | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 9:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 9:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 10:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 10:07 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 10:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 10:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 114 min | |
| Aug 1, 10:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 114 min | |
| Aug 1, 11:38 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 82 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Charlevoix | 51 min |
| Aug 1, 1:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Charlevoix | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Otsego | 41 min |
| Aug 1, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Otsego | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 90 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 90 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 90 min | |
| Aug 1, 3:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 95 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 87 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 96 min |
| Aug 1, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa | 88 min |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 80 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 80 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 80 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 80 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 87 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 87 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 87 min | |
| Aug 1, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Charlevoix, Emmet, Leelanau | 56 min |
| Aug 1, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Mackinac | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 88 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 88 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 88 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau | 50 min |
| Aug 1, 6:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Cheboygan | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 6:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Presque Isle | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 95 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 95 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Presque Isle | 39 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.