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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI

May 30, 2002Dickinson County, Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2002, 7:58 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 min. 2 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 30, 2002, 7:58 PM CDT (00:58 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2002, 8:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dickinson County, MI, Menominee County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:01 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 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Foster City, MI	Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
May 30, 8:35 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Wilson, MI	Three quarter inch diameter 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 30, 2:00 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 938 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -81 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1226 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 369 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

389 
WFUS53 KMQT 310058
TORMQT
MIC043-109-310145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
758 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN DICKINSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN
  MENOMINEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 755 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FOSTER CITY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES EAST
  OF IRON MOUNTAIN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WAUCEDAH AT 810 PM CDT
  CUNARD AT 815 PM CDT
  HERMANSVILLE AT 820 PM CDT
  POWERS...SPALDING AT 825 PM CDT
  WILSON...CARNEY AT 830 PM CDT
  GOURLEY AT 835 PM CDT

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

NNNN

RJT/LAROSA

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 30, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Iron	41 min
May 30, 7:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Iron	39 min
May 30, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		118 min
May 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	39 min
May 30, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga, Marquette	57 min
May 30, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Delta	39 min
May 30, 9:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Delta	51 min
May 30, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		55 min
May 30, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		55 min
May 30, 9:20 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		55 min
May 30, 10:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Delta	56 min
May 30, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		66 min
May 30, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		66 min
May 30, 10:54 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		66 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.