Tornado Warning 5, NWS Marquette, MI

Issued

Aug 1, 2002, 11:41 AM CDT (16:41 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 2002, 12:30 PM CDT

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Marquette, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Gogebic County, MI

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 011641
TORMQT
MIC053-011730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1141 AM CDT THU AUG 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN GOGEBIC COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 1138 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO NEAR WATERSMEET...OR ABOUT 30 MILES WEST OF IRON RIVER...
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TAMARACK LAKE AT 1150 AM CDT

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.