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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2003, 4:48 AM EDT for Baraga County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 21, 2003, 4:48 AM EDT (08:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Whole counties
County Baraga County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 2099 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 21, 3:52 AM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 3:52 AM EDT, 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 352 AM EDT MON JUL 21 2003 THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS FORECAST PACKAGE IS THE ENDING OF SHOWERS TODAY. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND RUC/ETA SHOWING A LONGWAVE TROUGH OVER QUEBEC...WITH THE TROUGH STRETCHING SOUTHWEST ACROSS THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. A BROAD RIDGE IS OVER CENTRAL ROCKIES WITH A SHORTWAVE SLIDING DOWN THE LEE OF ROCKIES RIDGE AND ROTATING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE QUEBEC TROUGH AND IS LOCATED OVER THE NORTHEAST WISCONSIN. SHOWERS CONTINUE TO FIRE OVER UPPER MICHIGAN IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SHORTWAVE AND THETA-E RIDGE MOVING THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING. ANOTHER WEAKER SHORTWAVE IS OVER JAMES BAY ALSO ROTATING THROUGH THE BASE OF THE SAME LONGWAVE TROUGH. SURFACE ANALYSIS DEPICTS A COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM SOUTHWEST QUEBEC ACROSS NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN INTO NORTH ILLINOIS. A RIDGE IS BUILDING OVER CENTRAL CANADA AND SPREADING INTO THE UPPER GREAT LAKES. FOG AND MIST ARE BEING REPORTED AT A FEW STATION AS A RESULT OF THE MOIST AIR RESIDUE OF LAST NIGHTS RAINS. THE SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN BY NOON TODAY. THE THETA-E RIDGE WILL EXTEND INTO CENTRAL WISCONSIN...WELL TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE OVER THE FORECAST AREA THIS MORNING WILL TRANSITION TO DIVERGENCE BY NOON. 310K ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS SHOWING AND INCREASE IN DESCENT ACROSS THE AREA BY NOON. SURFACE DEW POINTS WILL DIMINISH TO MID 50S BY NOON AS DRY AIR ADVECTS INTO THE AREA. FOG AND MIST SHOULD BURN OFF SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. DRIER AIR WILL ALSO REDUCE THE POTENTIAL OF SHOWERS FROM WEST TO EAST. THE SHORTWAVE OVER JAMES BAY WILL DIG INTO EAST CENTRAL ONTARIO. THIS AFTERNOON...DRIER AIR WILL CONTINUE AS SURFACE DEW POINT LOWER INTO THE LOW 50S THIS AFTERNOON. Q-VECTOR DIVERGENCE INCREASES ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. THE SHORTWAVE OVER EASTERN ONTARIO WILL DIG DEEPER INTO CENTRAL ONTARIO. Q-VECTOR DIVERGENCE WILL INCREASE. THUS SHOWERS WILL END. DRIER AIR AND SUBSIDENCE WILL LIMIT CLOUD COVER AS WELL. TRAJECTORY FORECAST AND GUIDANCE KEEPING THE HIGH TEMPERATURES AROUND 70 TODAY FOR MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE SHORTWAVE OVER CENTRAL ONTARIO WILL PUSH INTO LAKE SUPERIOR ON MONDAY NIGHT. THE COLD FRONT WILL SLIDE INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. ISENTROPIC ANALYSIS STILL PROJECTED DESCENT ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA AS THE CANADIAN RIDGE EXPANDS INTO THE FORECAST AREA. DRIER AIR WILL PUSH INTO THE FORECAST AREA. SHORTWAVE ENERGY WITH LIMITED MOISTURE WILL GENERATE CLOUDS ONLY. THIS WILL HELP TO KEEP TEMPERATURES UP A BIT. IT APPEARS TO DRY TO PRODUCE ANY SHOWERS. THE SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA ON TUESDAY. Q-VECTORS DIVERGENCE WILL BE PREDOMINATE OVER THE AREA. MEAN SURFACE-500MB RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL BE <60 PERCENT. SURFACE RIDGE WILL STRETCH ACROSS MINNESOTA AND LAKE SUPERIOR. THESE SHOULD KEEP THE SHOWERS OUT OF THE AREA. ANOTHER WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH THE RIDGE AND OVER THE FORECAST AREA ON TUESDAY NIGHT. THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE LOW LEVEL STABLE AND DRY. ANOTHER SHORTWAVE WILL MAKE ITS WAY THROUGH THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE FORECAST AREA WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL REMAIN OVER UPPER MICHIGAN KEEPING THE AIR MASS DRY AND STABLE. MEANWHILE...A COLD FRONT WILL DEVELOP OVER MANITOBA AND MOVE INTO NORTHWEST ONTARIO. A SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY. BY THIS TIME THE SURFACE RIDGE WILL HAVE SHIFTED INTO THE OHIO VALLEY...AND THE COLD ONTARIO COLD FRONT WILL HAVE MIGRATED TO CENTRAL ONTARIO AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA. Q-VECTORS CONVERGENCE WILL INCREASE OVER THE FORECAST AREA BY FRIDAY MORNING. THE Q-VECTORS CONVERGENCE WILL INCREASE OVER THE AREA ON FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. .MQT...NONE. DLG
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 20, 5:03 PM EDT, 11 hours 45 minutes before
MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-211200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 503 PM EDT SUN JUL 20 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AND MONDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT ACROSS WESTERN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE. LARGE HAIL TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER AND WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY...SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TONIGHT. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MQT (ALL LOWER CASE) MICHELS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 11:35 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Ontonagon | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 8:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Iron | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 8:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 92 min | |
| Jul 20, 9:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 2 hr | |
| Jul 20, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic, Ontonagon | 42 min |
| Jul 20, 9:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga, Houghton | 38 min |
| Jul 21, 12:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 35 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2003Every 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.