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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Marquette, MI

July 27, 2006Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2006, 10:41 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 49 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 27, 2006, 10:41 PM EDT (02:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2006, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:44 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

International Fa, MN (KINL), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 479 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: 411 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

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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 27, 4:30 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 4:30 PM EDT, 6 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 4:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 8:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 28, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	36 min
Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Delta	44 min
Jul 28, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson	34 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Schoolcraft	42 min
Jul 28, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		55 min
Jul 28, 5:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		67 min
Jul 28, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	64 min
Jul 28, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		43 min
Jul 28, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	54 min
Jul 28, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Menominee	38 min
Jul 28, 6:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Houghton, Ontonagon	48 min
Jul 28, 6:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	46 min
Jul 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga, Iron	45 min
Jul 28, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Marquette	38 min
Jul 28, 7:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	65 min
Jul 28, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	31 min
Jul 28, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	40 min
Jul 28, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Luce, Schoolcraft	55 min
Jul 28, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	50 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.