Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Aug 18, 2004, 3:03 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 18, 2004, 3:03 PM CDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2004, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Menominee County, MI
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 KMQT 182003 TORMQT MIC109-182100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 303 PM CDT WED AUG 18 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MENOMINEE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN * UNTIL 400 PM CDT * AT 300 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 14 MILES WEST OF STEPHENSON... OR 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF MENOMINEE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... SWANSON AROUND 310 PM CDT... STEPHENSON...INGALLS...DAGGETT AROUND 315 PM CDT... CEDAR RIVER AROUND 325 PM CDT... 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 4552 8798 4534 8800 4520 8650 4547 8646 WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/MQT/ $$ LESTER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 86 min | |
| Aug 18, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 22 min |
| Aug 18, 2:41 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 64 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 94 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 94 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:11 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 94 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:17 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 88 min | |
| Aug 18, 3:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 90 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:26 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 94 min | |
| Aug 18, 4:47 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 88 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.