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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2005, 5:35 PM EDT for Houghton County, Michigan. It was in force for 40 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 10, 2005, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Houghton County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 857 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 435 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 .DISCUSSION... .SHORT TERM (THIS EVENING)... MAIN FCST CONCERN IS FOCUS ON COVG/INTENSITY OF ONGOING CNVCTN. CONVECTION ATTM RUNNING FM W LK SUPERIOR INTO CNTRL WI. LATEST RUC SHOWS SHRTWV LIFTING INTO WCNTRL WI WITH ASSOCIATED WARM FNT NOW OBSERVED INTO THE SWRN COUNTIES. RUC SHOWS DECENT DPVA/H85-5 QVECTOR CNVGC OVER THE WRN ZNS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SHRTWV. MODIFIED 12Z GRB SDNG FOR 85/64 YIELDS CAPE OF 1400 J/KG WHICH MATCHES UP WELL WITH LAPS ANALYSIS WHICH SHOWS BUBBLE OF HIGHER CAPES EXTENDING INTO CNTRL UPR MI (IMT-SAW) AHEAD OF CONVECTION THAT HAS ALREADY PUSHED ACROSS FAR W UPR MI WITH LOCALIZED TREE DAMAGE AROUND WAKEFIELD (SEE LSRMQT). PARAMETERS OFF SVR CHKLIST WERE MARGINAL FOR TORNADO FORMATION ALG THIS BNDRY...NR THE LO END OF THE SCALE. ONCE CURRENT CONVECTION REACHES CNTRL ZONES IT LIKELY WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH AS CAPES ARE MUCH LOWER DUE TO ONSHORE FLOW FM LK MI/BAY OF GREEN BAY. HAVE LOWER POPS OVR E ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS EXPECTED TREND. && .LONG TERM (OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY)... MAY BE A BREAK LATER TONIGHT AFTER EVENING CONVECTION TIED TO WARM FRONT AND MESOSCALE VORT MAX FM W CNTRL WI LIFTS N OF CWA. WRN CWA DOES REMAIN ON FRINGE ANY WEAK/SMALL IMPULSES LIFTING NE IN OVERALL SW FLOW ALOFT AND IN REGION WHERE ANY LLJ WILL BE PRESENT. KEPT CHANCE POPS OVERNIGHT IN WEST BUT ONLY ISOLD FARTHER E. FOR FIRST HALF OF SAT W TIER WILL CONTINUE TO RESIDE ON FRINGE OF BETTER DEEP LAYER FORCING GRAZING AREA IN SW FLOW. CHANCES ACROSS ENTIRE CWA SHOULD RAMP UP BY AFTN AS SHORTWAVE/DEEP LAYER Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE FM S PLAINS BEGINS TO APPROACH E MN AND W WI. CIRRUS/ALTOSTRATUS FM BLOWOFF OFF OVERNIGHT CONVECTION MAY HOLD DOWN TEMPS OVR FAR W...OTHERWISE MIXING HEIGHTS AND PERSISTENCE SUPPORT LOW-MID 80S OVR C/E ZONES AWAY FM LK MICHIGAN. BLYR WINDS SHOULD BE STRONG ENOUGH TO PIN LK SUPERIOR BREEZE TO AREAS RIGHT ALONG IMMEDIATE SHORE. MLCAPES BASED FM LWR 100MB IN TROPOSPHERE RISE TO 1000-1500J/KG IN AFTN...HIGHEST OVR CNTRL ZONES. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW LITTLE CIN AS WELL. 0-6KM SHEAR VALUES START OUT DAY AROUND 25KT THEN RISE TO 35-40KT BY LATE AFTN/EARLY EVENING AS SHORTWAVE FM SW APPROACHES. TRIGGER DURING DAY IS LACKING WITH NOT MUCH LAKE BREEZE CONVERGENCE EXPECTED. ISENTROPIC ASCENT AND THETA-E ADVECTION COULD TRIGGER SOME SHRA/TS IN AFTN...BUT THINK LARGE SCALE CONVECTION WILL WAIT UNTIL LATER SAT AFTN INTO SAT NIGHT. SHORTWAVE AND DEEP LAYER Q-VECTOR CONVERGENCE AND WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY ALL SWEEP ACROSS AREA SAT NIGHT AND ARE TEAMED WITH LLJ AIMED AT UPR MI OF 35-40KT PER NAM/GFS. BEST INSTABILITY MAY STAY SHUNTED TO S WHICH COULD MITIGATE SVR THREAT SOMEWHAT...BUT INCREASING DEEP LAYER SHEAR SHOULD BOOST COVERAGE OF SHRA/TS OVR W HALF AND APPEARS ENOUGH TO JUSTIFY LIKELY POPS...ESPECIALLY THROUGH MIDNIGHT SAT NIGHT. POPS SHOULD TAPER OFF LATE SAT NIGHT...BUT FOR NOW WILL RIDE THE LIKELY POPS THROUGH 10Z AND FINE TUNE IN UPCOMING FCSTS. PRIMARY FRONT SINKS THROUGH CWA ON SUN. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...TEMPS AROUND 80F AND DEWPOINTS IN THE MID 60S WILL LEAD TO INCREASING INSTABILITY IN THE AFTN. TWEAKED GOING GRIDS TO DRIFT POPS BACK FARTHER W IN AFTN NEAR THE CONVERGENCE ZONE. FRONT CONTINUES TO SLIP ACROSS UPR MI SUN NIGHT AND A DRYING TREND SHOULD COMMENCE OVR ALL CWA BY SUN EVENING INTO EARLY MON. EXTENDED...VERY GOOD AGREEMENT IN OVERALL IDEA FOR THE MON-FRI TIME FRAME. THE MAIN FEATURE WILL BE UPR LOW CROSSING EAST TO WEST ACROSS N TIER OF CONUS. 00Z/06Z/12Z GFS AND ENSEMBLES ALONG WITH CANADIAN AND UKMET ALL SUPPORTIVE OF SOLN THAT LEADS TO SHRA/TS CHANCES MON-WED THEN GRADUALLY DRYING OUT THU-FRI. 00Z ECMWF CONTINUES A BIT FARTHER S WITH TRACK OF UPR LOW...BUT SIMILAR TO HPC...PREFER TO TREND FCST TOWARD CONSENSUS SOLN ATTM. EXPECT BEST CHANCES FOR RAIN SOMETIME IN THE TUE-WED PERIOD AS SFC WARM FRONT LIFTS TOWARD UPR MI. 12Z RUN OF GFS FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH SHIFTING UPR LOW INTO E LAKES BY FRI WITH HIGH PRES BUILDING INTO ONTARIO AND UPR LAKES...SO WENT DRY OVER ENTIRE CWA BY THEN. UNTIL UPR LOW REACHES THE AREA TEMPS SHOULD STAY ON WARM SIDE OF ENSEMBLE MOS GUIDANCE (LOWS IN UPR 50S/HIGHS AROUND 80). DEVELOPING NE FLOW IN WAKE OF UPR LOW AND ASSOCIATED SFC LOW SHOULD PRODUCE MUCH COOLER TEMPS BY THU/FRI WITH MOST AREAS STAYING IN 60S FOR MAX TEMPS BOTH DAYS. && .MQT...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && SHORT TERM...KC LONG TERM...JLA
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 5:20 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 10, 4:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
427 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0335 PM TSTM WND DMG 6 S WAKEFIELD 46.39N 89.93W
06/10/2005 GOGEBIC MI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE REPORTED DOWN ACROSS CHANEY LAKE RD
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WOODLocal storm report, Jun 10, 5:14 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 59 min | |
| Jun 10, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 66 min |
| Jun 10, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 96 min | |
| Jun 10, 4:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 67 min |
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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.