Tornado Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI

Issued

Aug 1, 2002, 12:37 PM EDT (16:37 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT

In force

53 min

Issued by

NWS Marquette, MI

Area

Whole counties

Counties Baraga County, MI, Iron County, MI

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

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WFUS53 KMQT 011637
TORMQT
MIC013-071-011730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1237 PM EDT THU AUG 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BARAGA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN
  IRON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT (1230 PM CDT)

* AT 1133 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SIDNAW...OR ABOUT 21 MILES NORTH OF
  IRON RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NED LAKE...BONE LAKE AT 1145 AM CDT
  THREE LAKES AT 1250 PM EDT

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

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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.