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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Marquette, MI

September 30, 2002Dickinson County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Sep 30, 2002, 7:11 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Michigan. It was in force for 34 min. 7 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: Sep 30, 2002, 7:11 PM CDT (00:11 UTC)
Expired: Sep 30, 2002, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Whole counties

County Dickinson County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Sep 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado F1	Kingsford, MI	This tornado developed over northeast Florence County, WI (See Storm Data for Wisconsin, Northeastern, for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado) and crossed the Menominee River just south of the Iron Mountain-Kingsford airport. The storm
Sep 30, 7:13 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Kingsford, MI	Power lines were knocked down.
Sep 30, 7:18 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Iron Mtn, MI	Three quarter inch diameter hail was reported.
Sep 30, 7:19 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Iron Mtn, MI	Numerous trees were knocked down.
Sep 30, 7:19 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Quinnesec, MI	This tornado developed on the east side of Quinnesec along U.S. 2, and tracked to the east-southeast along the north side of the highway to just west-northwest of Norway. Damage was limited to minor roof damage (lifted shingles) in Quinnesec, trees downed and
Sep 30, 7:22 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Quinnesec, MI	Numerous trees were knocked down.
Sep 30, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado F0	Norway, MI	This tornado touched down approximately 5 miles northeast of Norway, crossing the Norway Truck Trail Road before dissipating 1/4 mile east of the road crossing. Damage was limited to downed trees and broken branches.

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
Sep 30, 6:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -170 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

033 
WFUS53 KMQT 010011
TORMQT
MIC043-010045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
711 PM CDT MON SEP 30 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT

* AT 708 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE STORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR KINGSFORD...MOVING EAST
  AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VULCAN...NORWAY AT 725 PM CDT...
  WAUCEDAH AT 735 PM CDT...

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

NNNN

RJT

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
Sep 30, 7:27 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		2 hr
Sep 30, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	61 min
Sep 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	24 min
Sep 30, 7:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic, Ontonagon	54 min
Sep 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	49 min
Sep 30, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga, Houghton	48 min
Sep 30, 8:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	35 min
Sep 30, 8:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	59 min
Sep 30, 8:50 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		55 min
Sep 30, 10:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	MQT	Dickinson	6 hr

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.