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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 6:14 PM EDT for Clinton County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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 5, 2005, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2005, 7:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clinton County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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 5, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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
- 321 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 052214
TORGRR
MIC037-052315-
/O.NEW.KGRR.TO.W.0004.050605T2214Z-050605T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
614 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GRAND RAPIDS
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CLINTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
* UNTIL 715 PM EDT
* AT 611 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 20
MILES SOUTHWEST OF ST. JOHNS...AND MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
ST. JOHNS BY 630 PM EDT
ELSIE BY 700 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.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN.
LAT...LON 4288 8438 4285 8458 4285 8464 4284 8467
4296 8482 4297 8482 4312 8463 4312 8437
$$
MJS1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KGRR 052302
SVSGRR
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI
703 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005
MIC037-052313-
/O.CAN.KGRR.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050605T2315Z/
CLINTON MI-
703 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CLINTON COUNTY HAS BEEN CANCELLED...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NO
LONGER SEVERE. THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHWESTERN MICHIGAN.
LAT...LON 4288 8438 4285 8458 4285 8464 4284 8467
4296 8482 4297 8482 4312 8463 4312 8437
$$
LAURENSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 12:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 38 min | |
| Jun 5, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Kent | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 48 min |
| Jun 5, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton, Gratiot | 54 min |
| Jun 5, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 71 min |
| Jun 5, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 67 min | |
| Jun 5, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 3:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia, Montcalm | 78 min |
| Jun 5, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 2 hr | |
| Jun 5, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 63 min |
| Jun 5, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 13 min |
| Jun 5, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 67 min |
| Jun 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 40 min |
| Jun 5, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 64 min |
| Jun 5, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 38 min |
| Jun 5, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ingham | 61 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.