Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 776
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 20, 2003, 6:45 PM EST for 11 counties in Indiana; 33 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 2003, 6:45 PM EST (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 2003, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Noble County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Barry County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Berrien County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Clare County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Isabella County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Roscommon County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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.
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 7:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 7:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Manistee | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 66 min |
| Jul 20, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake | 55 min |
| Jul 20, 8:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Whitley | 54 min |
| Jul 20, 8:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Saint Joseph | 69 min |
| Jul 20, 8:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 10:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Berrien | 44 min |
| Jul 20, 11:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia, Kent | 52 min |
| Jul 20, 11:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Elkhart | 57 min |
| Jul 20, 11:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Kosciusko, Noble | 47 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 1593 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 12:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Steuben | 64 min |
| Jul 20, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Steuben | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Steuben | 113 min |
| Jul 20, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Jul 20, 6:23 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Lake and 10 more | 97 min |
| Jul 20, 1:16 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Baraga, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron and 3 more | 119 min |
| Jul 20, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:27 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton and 4 more | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 6:47 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton, Iron and 3 more | 88 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.