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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI

May 14, 2007Baraga County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2007, 9:27 AM EDT for Baraga County, Michigan. It was in force for 18 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: May 14, 2007, 9:27 AM EDT (13:27 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2007, 9:45 AM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Baraga County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:28 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

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 248 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 314 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 319 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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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 May 14, 4:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 4:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 57 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
May 13, 8:18 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		42 days
May 13, 9:29 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		42 days
May 14, 12:15 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		43 days
May 14, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	47 min
May 14, 1:39 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		43 days
May 14, 1:56 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		43 days
May 14, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Alger, Marquette	46 min
May 14, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		94 min
May 14, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Luce	23 min
May 14, 6:19 PM EDT	Marine Weather Statement	MQT		43 days
May 14, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		63 min
May 14, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		28 min
May 14, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	40 min
May 14, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	20 min
May 14, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		34 min
May 14, 7:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	86 min
May 14, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		37 min
May 14, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		43 min
May 14, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Marquette	69 min
May 14, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga	28 min
May 14, 7:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Gogebic	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2007 Every 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.