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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 2:29 PM EDT for Gratiot County, Michigan. It was in force for 31 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, 2:29 PM EDT (18:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Gratiot County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -135 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 KGRR 131829
TORGRR
MIC057-131900-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
228 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
GRATIOT COUNTY IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 300 PM EDT
* AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ELM HALL...OR ABOUT 8
MILES WEST OF ALMA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
ALMA...FOREST HILL AROUND 235 PM EDT
ST. LOUIS AROUND 240 PM EDT
BEEBE AROUND 245 PM EDT
BRECKENRIDGE...RATHBONE AROUND 250 PM EDT
WHEELER...LANGPORT...GALLOWAY AROUND 255 PM EDT
THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4329 8457 4327 8485 4344 8484 4346 8472
4346 8437 4330 8437
$$
RG BMThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ottawa | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 47 min |
| Jun 13, 1:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia, Kent | 51 min |
| Jun 13, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Isabella | 23 min |
| Jun 13, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 50 min |
| Jun 13, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 56 min |
| Jun 13, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 14 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.