Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 2005, 10:26 AM EDT for Delta County, Schoolcraft County, Michigan. It was in force for 79 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
- Aug 4, 2005, 10:26 AM EDT (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 2005, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 79 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Delta County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:29 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
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 569 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 543 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
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 Aug 4, 5:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 5:28 AM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 528 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 .UPDATE... MAIN FCST CONCERNS ARE SHRA/TSRA CHCS THIS MORNING. WV IMAGERY AND RUC ANALYSIS REVEALS MID LEVEL TROUGH AXIS FROM CNTRL CANADA TO THE NRN PLAINS WITH A DOWNSTREAM RDG OVER ERN NOAM. ONE SHRTWV WAS LOCATED OVER ERN LAKE SUPERIOR AND ERN UPR MI WHILE ANOTHER WAS MOVING THROUGH NRN WI. AT THE SFC...A TROF EXTENDED FROM ERN LAKE SUPERIOR THROUGH CNTRL UPR MI INTO NE WI WHILE THE COLD FRONT LAGGED BACK OVER WRN LAKE SUPERIOR...NW WI INTO SE MN. MAIN CONVECTION WAS LOCATED AHEAD AND ALONG THE PREFRONTAL TROF OVER FAR ERN UPR/LWR MI AND SRN WI ALONG 8H JET AXIS OF 40-45 KT. WEAKER CLUSTER OF STORMS OVER NW WI AND ALONG CDFNT WERE AIDED BY RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION FORCING OF 100 KT 3H JET AND CAPES AROUND 1200 J/KG PER LAPS SNDGS. WILL NEED TO WATCH THE CLUSTER OF STORMS OVER NW WI THIS MORNING TO SEE IF THEY HOLD TOGETHER AS THEY APPROACH THE U.P INSTABILITY. RUC SNDGS AT KIMT SUGGEST STORMS MIGHT SURVIVE INTO THE U.P GIVEN CAPES OF 1000-1500 J/KG THIS MORNING. HAVE KEPT IN ISOLD COVERAGE FOR TSRA/SHRA THIS MORNING. UNIDIRECTIONAL 0-6KM SHEAR VALUES INCREASE INTO THE 30-40 KT RANGE LATER THIS MORNING BUT BY THAT TIME DRYING WILL ALREADY BE TAKING HOLD OVER THE WRN ZONES. THUS...WOULD EXPECT ANY TSTMS THAT POP UP TO STAY BLO SVR LIMITS. LOOK FOR GOOD DRYING AND SUBSIDENCE IN WAKE OF COLD FRONT THIS AFTERNOON WITH A FAIRLY TIGHT WNW GRAD WIND PRODUCING WINDY CONDITIONS OVER THE KEW PENINSULA. 8H THERMAL TROF OF 7-9C MOVING OVER AREA AHEAD OF BUILDING RDGG WILL RESULT IN COOLER TEMPS ON FRI WITH HIGHS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S NORTH TO 75 TO 80 SOUTH. AS THE RDG AXIS SLIDES EAST OF THE AREA ON SAT A SW RETURN FLOW DEVELOPS BRINGING 8H TEMPS BACK UP TO 14-16C ON SAT AND 15-17C ON SUN ALLOWING HIGH TEMPS TO CLIMB INTO THE 80S FOR THE WEEKEND. ANTICYCLONIC FLOW AROUND SFC HIGH WILL KEEP CONDITIONS DRY ACROSS THE AREA FRI INTO SUN. && .MQT...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && VOSS
Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 4, 5:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 530 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-051200- ALGER-BARAGA-DELTA-DICKINSON-GOGEBIC-IRON-KEWEENAW-LUCE-MARQUETTE- MENOMINEE-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-ONTONAGON- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 530 AM EDT THU AUG 4 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING OVER CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. THE MAIN HAZARDS FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL AND LIGHTNING. THERE IS AN INCREASED RISK OF RIP CURRENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM MARQUETTE TO GRAND MARAIS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/MQT (ALL LOWER CASE) LAROSA
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 4, 10:14 AM EDT, 12 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 8:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 56 min | |
| Aug 4, 9:01 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 89 min | |
| Aug 4, 9:47 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 58 min | |
| Aug 4, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 50 min | |
| Aug 4, 10:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 91 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.