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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Gaylord, MI

October 2, 2006Mackinac County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 2, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT for Mackinac County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 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: Oct 2, 2006, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 2, 2006, 3:22 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Mackinac County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 302 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 2, 11:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 2, 11:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 2, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		54 min
Oct 2, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Missaukee, Wexford	64 min
Oct 2, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	56 min
Oct 2, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Roscommon	56 min
Oct 2, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		87 min
Oct 2, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Iosco	57 min
Oct 2, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Arenac	27 min
Oct 2, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Crawford, Kalkaska	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.