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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI

June 25, 2008Baraga County, Houghton County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2008, 6:49 PM EDT for Baraga County, Houghton County, Michigan. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2008, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2008, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Baraga County, MI, Houghton County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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 2008-06-25Temperature 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°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 2008-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1444 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KMQT 252250
SVRMQT
MIC013-061-252315-
/O.NEW.KMQT.SV.W.0021.080625T2249Z-080625T2315Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
649 PM EDT WED JUN 25 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BARAGA COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN
  CENTRAL HOUGHTON COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR KEWEENAW BAY...OR 8 MILES NORTH OF BARAGA.
  THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 34 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM IS
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...  
  PEQUAMING...JACOBSVILLE...AND POINT ABBAYE...

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR LARGE
HAIL AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A
STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4701 8835 4697 8843 4686 8846 4680 8845
      4680 8844 4684 8840 4688 8839 4688 8834
      4698 8816 4697 8812 4695 8811 4692 8816
      4691 8812 4674 8848 4694 8867 4704 8836
TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 251DEG 30KT 4689 8849

$$

ROLFSON
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS53 KMQT 252306
SVSMQT

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
705 PM EDT WED JUN 25 2008

MIC013-061-252315-
/O.CAN.KMQT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080625T2315Z/
BARAGA MI-HOUGHTON MI-
705 PM EDT WED JUN 25 2008

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR NORTHERN BARAGA AND
CENTRAL HOUGHTON COUNTIES...

DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE STORM HAS WEAKENED. THEREFORE...THE 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR
THE LATEST WARNINGS AND FORECASTS.

$$

ROLFSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTBaraga58 min
Jun 25, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT56 min
Jun 25, 6:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.