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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2006, 6:34 PM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 26 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
- Jun 3, 2006, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Kent County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 4:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1000 AM EDT SAT JUN 03 2006 LMZ844>849-MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-041000- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE-MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA- CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON-MONTCALM-GRATIOT- OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON-INGHAM-VAN BUREN- KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 1000 AM EDT SAT JUN 03 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM OVER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN AROUND NOON AND LINGER INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. THE BEST CHANCE OF STORMS WILL BE INLAND FROM LAKE MICHIGAN...ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 131. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS POSSIBLE WITH ANY STRONGER STORMS THAT FORM... AS WELL AS STRONG WIND GUSTS TO 55 MPH. THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WILL BE TO THE SOUTH AT 15 TO 20 MPH. THE STORMS WILL DIMINISH AFTER 7 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AS WELL AS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME DUE TO THE EXPECTED LOW AREAL COVERAGE OF STORMS. OSTUNO MEADE
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 3, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 3, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Montcalm | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 31 min |
| Jun 3, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2006Every 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.