Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 4, 2004Missaukee County, Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2004, 8:43 PM EDT for Missaukee County, Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 77 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
May 4, 2004, 8:43 PM EDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2004, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
77 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Missaukee County, MI, Wexford County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:44 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 226 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 2004-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2004-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

215 
WUUS53 KAPX 050043
SVRAPX
MIC113-165-050200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
843 PM EDT TUE MAY 4 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MISSAUKEE COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
  WEXFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 1000 PM EDT

* AT 840 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF MOORESTOWN...OR 16 MILES SOUTH
  OF TRAVERSE CITY...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOORESTOWN BY 925 PM EDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND/OR LARGE HAIL. ALL
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY
FROM TALL OBJECTS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4434 8508 4443 8554 4446 8566 4450 8565
          4451 8486 4429 8488

$$

JPB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 8:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPXGrand Traverse36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.