Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2003, 5:54 PM EDT for Osceola County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 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, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2003, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Osceola 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KGRR 082154 TORGRR MIC133-082230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 555 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OSCEOLA COUNTY IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN * UNTIL 630 PM EDT * AT 551 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO OVER TUSTIN...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTH OF CADILLAC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HIGHLAND AROUND 600 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4410 8556 4401 8535 4434 8505 4445 8532 $$ 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, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake | 47 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 |
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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.