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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

June 8, 2003Lake County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 5:13 PM EDT for Lake County, Michigan. It was in force for 47 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, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lake County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 191 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 575 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGRR 082113
SVRGRR
MIC085-082200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
513 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAKE COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 511 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES NORTH OF BALDWIN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
   NIRVANA AROUND 520 PM EDT
   LUTHER AROUND 540 PM EDT
   BRISTOL AROUND 555 PM EDT

HAIL UP TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...OR ROUGHLY THE
SIZE OF A DIME...IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.


LAT...LON 4395 8601 4416 8575 4416 8558 4398 8558
          4383 8584

$$

JL NJJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 8, 1:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Allegan	42 min
Jun 8, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Kent	65 min
Jun 8, 2:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Kalamazoo	54 min
Jun 8, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Barry	63 min
Jun 8, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Mecosta	57 min
Jun 8, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Calhoun	55 min
Jun 8, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ionia	60 min
Jun 8, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton	63 min
Jun 8, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton, Gratiot	62 min
Jun 8, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham, Jackson	59 min
Jun 8, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	53 min
Jun 8, 5:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	GRR	Osceola	36 min
Jun 8, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton	66 min
Jun 8, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clinton	54 min
Jun 8, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Ingham	59 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.