Tornado Warning 8, NWS Marquette, MI

Issued

Aug 1, 2002, 12:28 PM CDT (17:28 UTC)

Expired

Aug 1, 2002, 1:00 PM CDT

In force

32 min

Issued by

NWS Marquette, MI

Area

Whole counties

County Iron County, MI

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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 011729
TORMQT
MIC071-011800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1228 PM CDT THU AUG 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 PM CDT

* AT 1224 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF AMASA...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF
  CRYSTAL FALLS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN IRON COUNTY

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.

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RJT/LAROSA

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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.