Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT for Delta County, Michigan. It was in force for 61 min. 3 reports 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
- May 6, 2002, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delta County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 4:34 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Gladstone, MI | Three-quarter inch hail was reported. |
| May 6, 4:42 PM EDT | Hail 1.25 | Gladstone, MI | Ping-pong ball sized hail covered the ground. |
| May 6, 5:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Garden, MI | Nickel sized hail was reported. |
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KMQT 062014 SVRMQT MIC041-062115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 413 PM EDT MON MAY 6 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DELTA COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LA BRANCHE...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF ESCANABA. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HYDE AT 425 PM EDT BRAMPTON...PERKINS...FORD RIVER AT 430 PM EDT GLADSTONE...ESCANABA AT 435 PM EDT RAPID RIVER...STONINGTON AT 440 PM EDT ENSIGN AT 445 PM EDT REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. HAIL OF THIS SIZE CAN DAMAGE WINDOWS...ALUMINUM SIDING...AND VEHICLES WHEN ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG WIND GUSTS. NNNN 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 45 min |
| May 6, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 47 min |
| May 6, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 23 min |
| May 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 97 min | |
| May 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 97 min | |
| May 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 97 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.