Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 3:19 PM EDT for Kalkaska County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 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, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kalkaska 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, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
969
WFUS53 KAPX 081919
TORAPX
MIC079-082000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
319 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
KALKASKA COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 316 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 3
MILES NORTH OF SHARON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF KALKASKA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADIC STORM WILL REACH...
SIGMA AROUND 325 PM EDT
DARRAGH AROUND 330 PM EDT
BEAR LAKE AROUND 335 PM EDT
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IN A BASEMENT OR
AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. VEHICLES AND MOBILE HOMES
SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR STURDIER SHELTER.
THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA.
LAT...LON 4451 8509 4463 8525 4485 8498 4485 8486
4464 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, 2:38 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, 3:41 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 |
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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.