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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 6:04 PM EDT for Ogemaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 41 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
- Jun 13, 2004, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ogemaw County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KAPX 132204 CCA
TORAPX
MIC129-132245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
602 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
OGEMAW COUNTY IN NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 557 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR ROSE CITY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTH OF MIO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
A SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR CLEAR LAKE AT 600 PM.
LAT...LON 4440 8396 4441 8417 4450 8425 4450 8390
4447 8390 4441 8389
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Leelanau | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 90 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 90 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 93 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 93 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 93 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 93 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 93 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 81 min | |
| Jun 13, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 81 min | |
| Jun 13, 4:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Charlevoix | 36 min |
| Jun 13, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 83 min | |
| Jun 13, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Cheboygan | 53 min |
| Jun 13, 5:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 91 min | |
| Jun 13, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Oscoda | 26 min |
| Jun 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Arenac | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 6:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Ogemaw | 43 min |
| Jun 13, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 85 min | |
| Jun 13, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Iosco | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 6:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | APX | Alpena, Montmorency | 44 min |
| Jun 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 60 min | |
| Jun 13, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 46 min | |
| Jun 13, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 49 min |
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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.