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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Marquette, MI

August 26, 2003Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 3:33 AM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 72 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
Aug 26, 2003, 3:33 AM CDT (08:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2003, 4:45 AM CDT
In force
72 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Menominee County, MI

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 125 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2003-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 272 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2003-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-178 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 Aug 26, 2:45 AM CDT, 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 2:45 AM CDT, 48 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 25, 4:30 AM CDT, 23 hours 3 minutes before
MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-261200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
530 AM EDT MON AUG 25 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

ISOLATED INLAND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. MORE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. SOME OF
THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY TUESDAY OVER SOUTH AND EAST UPPER
MICHIGAN. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
MORNING...AND AGAIN EARLY SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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)

JLB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 12:20 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT85 min
Aug 26, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic80 min
Aug 26, 2:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTOntonagon35 min
Aug 26, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTIron74 min
Aug 26, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson37 min
Aug 26, 3:26 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT94 min
Aug 26, 3:26 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT94 min
Aug 26, 3:58 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT92 min
Aug 26, 3:58 AM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT92 min
Aug 26, 3:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDelta62 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.