Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2008, 1:09 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 66 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
- Aug 1, 2008, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2008, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Dickinson County, MI, Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1166 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Aug 1, 10:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 10:05 AM CDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 4:13 AM CDT, 8 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 513 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-021200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 513 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 /413 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN TODAY. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE SUNDAY OVER WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN...AND SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY OVER ALL OF WEST AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-021200- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 513 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 /413 AM CDT FRI AUG 1 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS MORNING ACROSS ALL OF LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR SUNDAY...AND ACROSS ALL OF LAKE SUPERIOR SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. LMZ221-248-250-021200- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 513 AM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. MICHELS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 1, 12:42 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 142 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 MIZ005-011-011830- DICKINSON-MARQUETTE- 142 PM EDT FRI AUG 1 2008 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DICKINSON AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM EDT/130 PM CDT/... AT 140 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR WITCH LAKE...OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ISHPEMING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 18 MPH. ONE HALF INCH DIAMETER HAIL...WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... REPUBLIC. WITCH LAKE. BIG BASS LAKE. RALPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SRF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 5:30 AM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 75 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 1:25 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 65 min | |
| Aug 1, 1:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 55 min |
| Aug 1, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta, Menominee | 62 min |
| Aug 1, 1:55 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 2 hr | |
| Aug 1, 1:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MQT | Delta | 47 min |
| Aug 1, 2:08 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 82 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:15 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 60 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta | 40 min |
| Aug 1, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Delta, Marquette | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 38 min | |
| Aug 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 55 min | |
| Aug 1, 3:56 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 64 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 45 min | |
| Aug 1, 4:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta, Menominee | 28 min |
| Aug 1, 5:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | Delta | 58 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.