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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

June 11, 2005Ontonagon County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2005, 7:08 PM EDT for Ontonagon County, Michigan. It was in force for 67 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 11, 2005, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2005, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 244 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -158 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 916 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KMQT 112308
SVRMQT
MIC131-120015-
/O.NEW.KMQT.SV.W.0021.050611T2308Z-050612T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
708 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ONTONAGON COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 607 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST
  OF MARENISCO TO 16 MILES SOUTH OF WATERSMEET...OR FROM 25 MILES
  EAST OF IRONWOOD...TO 22 MILES WEST OF IRON RIVER. THE LINE WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  PAULDING AROUND 725 PM EDT...
  EWEN AROUND 730 PM EDT...
  BRUCE CROSSING AROUND 735 PM EDT...
  TROUT CREEK AROUND 740 PM EDT...
  ROCKLAND AROUND 745 PM EDT...

REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60
AND 70 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN TOPPLE TREES AND POWER LINES AND
CAUSE MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.

LAT...LON 4682 8920 4668 8899 4641 8900 4634 8906
      4634 8932 4635 8936 4650 8935 4651 8941
      4652 8941

$$

JLA

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KMQT 112332
SVSMQT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
731 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

MIC131-120015-
/O.CON.KMQT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050612T0015Z/
ONTONAGON MI-
731 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ONTONAGON COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM EDT...

AT 731 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF EWEN
TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF TROUT CREEK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 18
MILES SOUTH OF ONTONAGON TO 29 MILES NORTHWEST OF IRON RIVER...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BETWEEN BRUCE CROSSING AND ROCKLAND THROUGH 745 PM EDT.

REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60
AND 70 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN TOPPLE TREES AND POWER LINES AND
CAUSE MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR
THE LATEST WARNINGS AND FORECASTS.

LAT...LON 4682 8920 4668 8899 4641 8900 4634 8906
      4634 8932 4635 8936 4650 8935 4651 8941
      4652 8941

$$
JLA

000 
WWUS53 KMQT 112352
SVSMQT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
751 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

MIC131-120015-
/O.CON.KMQT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050612T0015Z/
ONTONAGON MI-
751 PM EDT SAT JUN 11 2005

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ONTONAGON COUNTY
UNTIL 815 PM EDT...

AT 751 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF
ROCKLAND TO 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF TROUT CREEK...OR ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ONTONAGON TO 21 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF BARAGA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL AREAS SOUTH OF MASS CITY THROUGH 815 PM EDT.

REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THESE STORMS HAVE PASSED.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUSTS BETWEEN 60
AND 70 MPH. WINDS THIS HIGH CAN TOPPLE TREES AND POWER LINES AND
CAUSE MINOR STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR
THE LATEST WARNINGS AND FORECASTS.

LAT...LON 4682 8920 4668 8899 4641 8900 4634 8906
      4634 8932 4635 8936 4650 8935 4651 8941
      4652 8941

$$

JLA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	49 min
Jun 11, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	56 min
Jun 11, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2005 Every 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.