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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Marquette, MI

June 7, 2007Ontonagon County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 2007, 4:36 PM EDT for Ontonagon County, Michigan. It was in force for 54 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 7, 2007, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 7, 12:34 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPC10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 272 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 2007-06-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 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 2007-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 212 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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-754 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
214 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 Jun 7, 1:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 1:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:01 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 7, 2:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
258 PM EDT THU JUN 7 2007

MIZ009-072100-
GOGEBIC-
158 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR GOGEBIC COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM CDT...

AT 255 PM EDT(155 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 31 MILES WEST OF PHILLIPS...OR 38
MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARK FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING FUNNEL CLOUDS.

PEOPLE IN GOGEBIC COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITY OF MARENISCO...SHOULD
MONITOR THE WEATHER SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER
THREATEN.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE AREA.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS
CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

JLL
Special weather statement, Jun 7, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
325 PM EDT THU JUN 7 2007

MIZ012-072015-
MENOMINEE-
225 PM CDT THU JUN 7 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR MENOMINEE COUNTY UNTIL 315 PM CDT...

AT 222 PM CDT...SATELLITE IMAGERY AND NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THUNDERSTORMS WERE RAPIDLY DEVELOPING
ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF WAUSAUKEE TO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF POUND...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 23 MILES SOUTH OF
KINGSFORD TO 27 MILES WEST OF MENOMINEE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 80 MPH.

PEOPLE IN MENOMINEE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF HERMANSVILLE...
STEPHENSON...LA BRANCHE AND POWERS...SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION CLOSELY. LISTEN FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS AND BE PREPARED TO
TAKE APPROPRIATE ACTION SHOULD SEVERE WEATHER THREATEN.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL
TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS
CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION.

JLA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 10:54 PM EDTMarine Weather StatementMQT20 days
Jun 7, 3:43 AM EDTWind AdvisoryMQTAlger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Houghton and 7 more18 hr
Jun 7, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic65 min
Jun 7, 4:29 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT31 min
Jun 7, 6:25 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMenominee35 min
Jun 7, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT66 min
Jun 7, 6:59 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMenominee31 min
Jun 7, 7:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDelta58 min
Jun 7, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT66 min
Jun 7, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee57 min
Jun 7, 7:33 PM EDTTornado WarningMQTMenominee27 min
Jun 7, 7:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT54 min
Jun 7, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Ontonagon35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.