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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Gaylord, MI

May 24, 2004Wexford County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 1:01 AM EDT for Wexford County, Michigan. It was in force for 59 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 24, 2004, 1:01 AM EDT (05:01 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2004, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Gaylord, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wexford County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 2004-05-24Temperature 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 2004-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 196 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
560 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.0

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The text

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

233 
WUUS53 KAPX 240501
SVRAPX
MIC165-240600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
100 AM EDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 1252 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MESICK TO
  HARRIETTA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  THOMPSONVILLE TO 15 MILES WEST OF CADILLAC...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BUCKLEY AND BOON BY 105 AM EDT
  MEAUWATAKA BY 110 AM EDT
  MANTON BY 120 AM EDT

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. ALL
THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED. IF CAUGHT OUTDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM TALL OBJECTS AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER.

LAT...LON 4429 8579 4450 8582 4450 8534 4428 8534
          4418 8563 4416 8577

$$

SPR

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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.