Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2011
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Northern Indiana
NWS Northern Indiana issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2011, 4:03 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Michigan. It was in force for 15 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
- May 22, 2011, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2011, 4:18 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Northern Indiana
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Hillsdale County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 330 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 743 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
811 WUUS53 KIWX 222003 SVRIWX MIC059-222100- /O.NEW.KIWX.SV.W.0049.110522T2003Z-110522T2100Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 403 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HILLSDALE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN... * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 359 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS SEVERE STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR READING...OR 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HILLSDALE...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. SPOTTERS REPORTED NICKEL SIZE HAIL IN MONTGOMERY WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE... HILLSDALE AND JONESVILLE... OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE LAKE WILSON...BEAR LAKE...OSSEO...NORTH ADAMS...MOSCOW...JEROME AND SOMERSET CENTER. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. && LAT...LON 4207 8436 4175 8468 4181 8478 4208 8475 TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 219DEG 26KT 4183 8472 WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN $$
1 follow-up statement
783 WWUS53 KIWX 222018 SVSIWX SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 418 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 MIC059-222028- /O.CAN.KIWX.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-110522T2100Z/ HILLSDALE MI- 418 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2011 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HILLSDALE COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 417 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND NO LONGER POSES AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY. THEREFORE... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST HILLSDALE COUNTY NEAR WALDRON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORTHERN INDIANA. && LAT...LON 4207 8436 4175 8468 4181 8478 4208 8475 TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 219DEG 26KT 4191 8463 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Northern Indiana issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Hillsdale | 68 min |
| May 22, 7:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | Saint Joseph | 57 min |
| May 22, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | Branch, Saint Joseph | 50 min |
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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.