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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Marquette, MI

July 24, 2006Menominee County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2006, 2:32 PM CDT for Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 58 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 24, 2006, 2:32 PM CDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2006, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Menominee County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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 nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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 2006-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 257 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 2006-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-225 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1133 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
171 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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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 24, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 10:10 AM CDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 24, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
1130 AM EDT MON JUL 24 2006

MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-251300-
KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE-
GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-
SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-
1030 AM CDT MON JUL 24 2006 /1130 AM EDT MON JUL 24 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER
MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON OVER
UPPER MICHIGAN...MAINLY SOUTH OF A LINE FROM MARQUETTE TO
WATERSMEET...AND MOVE INTO SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN THIS EVENING.
SOME OF THE STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER AND WINDS GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF WEST AND CENTRAL
UPPER MICHIGAN TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING.

LSZ221-241>248-263-264-251300-
KEWEENAW BAY AND HURON BAY FROM LOWER ENTRANCE LIGHT TO PORTAGE
LAKE TO HURON ISLANDS MI-SAXON HARBOR WI TO ONTONAGON MI-
ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI-
UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI-
MANITOU ISLAND TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI-
HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI-MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-
MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI-GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI-
LAKE SUPERIOR, EAST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND
PORTAGE, MN, TO A LINE NORTHWARD FROM MANITOU IS. MI, BEYOND 5 NM
AND SOUTH OF THE US/CANADIAN BORDER-
LAKE SUPERIOR, EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU IS. MI NORTHWARD
BEYOND 5 NM AND SOUTH OF THE US/CANADIAN BORDER, EXCLUDING
WHITEFISH BAY-
1030 AM CDT MON JUL 24 2006 /1130 AM EDT MON JUL 24 2006/

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE
SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF LAKE
SUPERIOR THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE
OVER SOUTHWEST LAKE SUPERIOR TONIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER ALL OF LAKE SUPERIOR
TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY.

LMZ221-248-262-251300-
BAY OF GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND
PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI-
LAKE MICHIGAN...FROM SEUL CHOIX POINT TO ROCK ISLAND
PASSAGE...SOUTHEASTWARD BEYOND 5 NM OFF SHORE TO THE MID-
LINE OF THE LAKE-
1130 AM EDT MON JUL 24 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE
MICHIGAN.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL UPPER
MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON AND MOVE EITHER OVER THE BAY OF GREEN BAY OR
NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE
STRONGEST STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER AND
WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
NIGHT.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE AFTER MIDNIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT INTO
SUNDAY.

JLB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 24, 3:21 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT54 min
Jul 24, 3:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee49 min
Jul 24, 4:59 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT61 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.