Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT for Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2002, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Grand Traverse County, MI
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, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 2319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -189 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 922 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 198 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 8.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
862
WUUS53 KAPX 012313
SVRAPN
MIC055-020000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
713 PM EDT THU AUG 1 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 800 PM EDT
* AT 708 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF TRAVERSE CITY...MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH...
BATES...ACME AROUND 720 PM EDT
WILLIAMSBURG AROUND 725 PM EDT
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.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OCCASIONALLY PRODUCE TORNADOES...AND CAN DO SO QUICKLY.
LAT...LON 4463 8567 4477 8571 4477 8561 4483 8555
4479 8555 4476 8558 4475 8554 4485 8546
4485 8538 4482 8533 4467 8533The 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, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan | 47 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, 7:25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.