Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

June 8, 2004Luce County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2004, 5:04 PM EDT for Luce County, Michigan. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2004, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2004, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Whole counties

County Luce County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 157 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 281 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2004-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 823 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Alpena, MI at 12:00Z on 2004-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
823 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMQT 082104
SVRMQT
MIC095-082200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
504 PM EDT TUE JUN 8 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LUCE COUNTY IN EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 459 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SENEY...OR 20 MILES WEST OF NEWBERRY. THE
  STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HELMER AROUND 555 PM EDT...
  MCMILLAN AROUND 600 PM EDT...

DAMAGING WINDS OVER 60 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING CAN RESULT FROM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

$$

LAT...LON 4627 8548 4625 8563 4625 8586 4643 8585
          4640 8568 4633 8542

MICHELS

WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MQT/

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 8:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT90 min
Jun 7, 8:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTKeweenaw58 min
Jun 8, 6:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT80 min
Jun 8, 6:48 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT87 min
Jun 8, 6:48 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT87 min
Jun 8, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft37 min
Jun 8, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTLuce19 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.