Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 2:38 PM EDT for Grand Traverse County, Kalkaska County, Missaukee County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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
- Jun 8, 2003, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 3:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Grand Traverse County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Missaukee County, MI
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1160 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
482
WUUS53 KAPX 081838
SVRAPX
MIC055-079-113-081935-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
237 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GRAND TRAVERSE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
KALKASKA COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
MISSAUKEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 335 PM EDT
* AT 236 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES SOUTH OF FIFE LAKE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LAKE CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH...
FIFE LAKE AROUND 250 PM EDT
SMITHVILLE AROUND 255 PM EDT
SOUTH BOARDMAN AROUND 300 PM EDT
SHARON AROUND 305 PM EDT
KALKASKA...SIGMA AROUND 315 PM EDT
DARRAGH...BEAR LAKE AROUND 325 PM EDT
AT 230 PM EDT LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL 3 MILES WEST
OF CADILLAC.
REMAIN INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. THIS
STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60 AND 80 MPH ALONG
WITH DIME SIZED OR LARGER HAIL. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN DOWN TREES AND
POWER LINES.
LAT...LON 4437 8533 4450 8533 4451 8550 4485 8515
4485 8486 4472 8486
&
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 17 min |
| Jun 8, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Kalkaska | 41 min |
| Jun 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford | 49 min |
| Jun 8, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Gladwin | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 56 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Gladwin | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 54 min |
| Jun 8, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Missaukee | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Wexford | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 7:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Missaukee | 39 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.