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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Marquette, MI

July 16, 2006Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2006, 9:42 AM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 33 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
Jul 16, 2006, 9:42 AM EDT (13:42 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2006, 10:15 AM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 397 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2006-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, International Fa, MN at 12:00Z on 2006-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2497 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
13 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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 6:06 AM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 16, 9:22 AM EDT, 20 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 16, 9:27 AM EDT, 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT58 min
Jul 15, 9:31 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT29 min
Jul 15, 11:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson30 min
Jul 15, 11:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTKeweenaw23 min
Jul 15, 11:56 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT64 min
Jul 16, 12:36 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT84 min
Jul 16, 1:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT30 min
Jul 16, 1:59 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT2 hr
Jul 16, 3:12 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT63 min
Jul 16, 3:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT37 min
Jul 16, 3:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Ontonagon44 min
Jul 16, 3:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw67 min
Jul 16, 3:44 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT46 min
Jul 16, 4:06 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT114 min
Jul 16, 4:15 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT45 min
Jul 16, 4:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette45 min
Jul 16, 4:59 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT61 min
Jul 16, 5:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton, Keweenaw62 min
Jul 16, 5:24 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT51 min
Jul 16, 5:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTAlger, Luce60 min
Jul 16, 5:48 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT57 min
Jul 16, 5:58 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT62 min
Jul 16, 6:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft14 min
Jul 16, 6:02 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT43 min
Jul 16, 6:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton34 min
Jul 16, 6:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTHoughton61 min
Jul 16, 6:45 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT90 min
Jul 16, 7:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningMQTHoughton3 hr
Jul 16, 7:51 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT54 min
Jul 16, 8:11 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT64 min
Jul 16, 9:43 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT62 min
Jul 16, 10:05 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT55 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.