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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI

June 5, 2005Gogebic County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2005, 5:09 PM CDT for Gogebic County, Michigan. It was in force for 51 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, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2005, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Gogebic County, MI

The radar

The Duluth radar (KDLH), 173 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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 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, 12:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 5, 3:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 275 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -300 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1366 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 77 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 
WFUS53 KMQT 052209
TORMQT
MIC053-052300-
/O.NEW.KMQT.TO.W.0002.050605T2209Z-050605T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
509 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  GOGEBIC COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT

* AT 507 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF
  MARENISCO...OR 15 MILES EAST OF IRONWOOD...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MILES
  AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WAKEFIELD AROUND 530 PM CDT...
  THOMASTON...BESSEMER AROUND 535 PM CDT...

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.

LAT...LON 4666 9014 4665 9012 4668 9005 4667 9003
      4671 8999 4676 8987 4660 8987 4659 8979
      4633 8969 4629 8985 4631 8996 4662 9015

$$

AJ

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KMQT 052230
SVSMQT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
629 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2005

MIC053-052300-
/O.CON.KMQT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050605T2300Z/
GOGEBIC MI-
529 PM CDT SUN JUN 5 2005

...TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR GOGEBIC COUNTY UNTIL 600 PM
CDT...

AT 529 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE STORM WITH A
DEVELOPING TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF MARENISCO...OR 18 MILES EAST
OF IRONWOOD. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  5 MILES NORTH OF MARENISCO AT 535 PM CDT...

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 9 PM CDT. CONDITIONS REMAIN 
FAVORABLE FOR ADDITIONAL TORNADOES TO DEVELOP.

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

LAT...LON 4666 9014 4665 9012 4668 9005 4667 9003
      4671 8999 4676 8987 4660 8987 4650 8974
      4648 8941 4629 8985 4631 8996 4662 9015

$$

AJ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 3:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	43 min
Jun 5, 3:40 AM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		50 min
Jun 5, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	64 min
Jun 5, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	60 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		51 min
Jun 5, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	59 min
Jun 5, 5:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	49 min
Jun 5, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		74 min
Jun 5, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Iron	71 min
Jun 5, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	50 min
Jun 5, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton	59 min
Jun 5, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		56 min
Jun 5, 6:28 PM CDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		32 min
Jun 5, 6:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	65 min

Nearby

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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.