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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 8, 2003Gladwin County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 4:30 PM EDT for Gladwin County, Michigan. It was in force for 45 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, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gladwin 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 197 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KAPX 082030
SVRAPX
MIC051-082115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
429 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 427 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER GLADWIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL REACH...
  HOCKADAY...WOODEN SHOE VILLAGE AROUND 440 PM EDT

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 4388 8450 4405 8459 4416 8440 4416 8417
          4401 8416

$$

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, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, Missaukee	57 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, 4:51 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

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.