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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

April 15, 2003Benzie County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 2003, 5:25 PM EDT for Benzie County, Michigan. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 15, 2003, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Benzie County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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: 46 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -629 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

993 
WUUS53 KAPX 152125
SVRAPX
MIC019-152200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
525 PM EDT TUE APR 15 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BENZIE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 521 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 14 MILES WEST OF HONOR...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF FRANKFORT...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH...
  HONOR AROUND 535 PM EDT
  LAKE ANN AROUND 545 PM EDT

REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZED OR LARGER HAIL.

LAT...LON 4463 8625 4470 8626 4473 8617 4473 8610
          4477 8606 4477 8582 4465 8582

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		77 min
Apr 15, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		77 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2003 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.