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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

May 13, 2005Montcalm County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2005, 10:57 AM EDT for Montcalm County, Michigan. It was in force for 16 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 13, 2005, 10:57 AM EDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2005, 11:13 AM EDT
In force
16 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Montcalm County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-05-13Temperature 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, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2005-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 262 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2352 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
262 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
393 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KGRR 131457
SVRGRR
MIC117-131530-
/O.NEW.KGRR.SV.W.0013.050513T1457Z-050513T1530Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1057 AM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS
HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTCALM COUNTY IN CENTRAL MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT

* AT 1055 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STANTON...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CRYSTAL AND CEDAR LAKE AROUND 1105 AM EDT
  VESTABURG AROUND 1110 AM EDT

HAIL TO THREE-QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER...OR ROUGHLY THE SIZE
OF A PENNY...IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY
STRUCTURE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LAT...LON 4346 8498 4346 8486 4327 8484 4324 8486
      4322 8498 4320 8514 4320 8528 4332 8522

$$

BEACH RG
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KGRR 131513
SVSGRR

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
1113 AM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

MIC117-131523-
/O.CAN.KGRR.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-050513T1530Z/
MONTCALM MI-
1113 AM EDT FRI MAY 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONTCALM COUNTY HAS BEEN
CANCELLED...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER
SEVERE. THEREFORE THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4346 8498 4346 8486 4327 8484 4324 8486
      4322 8498 4320 8514 4320 8528 4332 8522

$$

RG BEACH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 8:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRKalamazoo41 min
May 13, 9:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRCalhoun30 min
May 13, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRVan Buren53 min
May 13, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRAllegan57 min
May 13, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRKalamazoo50 min
May 13, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRRJackson46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.