Tornado Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

Issued

Aug 1, 2002, 1:48 PM EDT (17:48 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT

In force

27 min

Issued by

NWS Gaylord, MI

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Charlevoix County, 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.

972 
WFUS53 KAPX 011748
TORAPN
MIC029-011815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
148 PM EDT THU AUG 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CHARLEVOIX COUNTY IN NORTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 144 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ADVANCE...OR ABOUT
  4 MILES NORTH OF EAST JORDAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM WILL REACH...
  BOYNE CITY AROUND 155 PM EDT
  BOYNE FALLS AROUND 200 PM EDT

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.

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 4512 8474 4513 8513 4518 8522 4533 8508
          4521 8485

Tornado Warnings in Michigan, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.