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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 152, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

September 8, 2006Muskegon County, Ottawa County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 2006, 7:57 PM EDT for Muskegon County, Ottawa County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 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
Sep 8, 2006, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Sep 8, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Muskegon County, MI, Ottawa County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2006-09-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 49 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 12:00Z on 2006-09-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-190 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1412 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 8, 3:25 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGRR65 min
Sep 8, 6:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGRR58 min
Sep 8, 7:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGRR40 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.