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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 8, 2003Missaukee County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 7:06 PM EDT for Missaukee County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 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, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Missaukee County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 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.

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.

077 
WFUS53 KAPX 082306
TORAPX
MIC113-082345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
706 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MISSAUKEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 745 PM EDT

* AT 704 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 5
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MODDERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  LAKE CITY. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM WILL REACH...
  MODDERSVILLE AROUND 715 PM EDT
  MERRITT AROUND 725 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 4418 8512 4444 8489 4417 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, 3:19 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

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.