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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT for Schoolcraft County, Michigan. It was in force for 28 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
- Jul 25, 2011, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2011, 3:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:29 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -67 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 Jul 25, 1:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:07 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 25, 3:03 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 303 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2011 MIZ013-014-085-252000- DELTA-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 303 PM EDT MON JUL 25 2011 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DELTA AND SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT... AT 257 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF STEUBEN TO 8 MILES NORTH OF GARDEN CORNERS. ADDITIONAL STORMS WERE ALSO LOCATED JUST TO THE WEST OF THIS LINE. ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CHICAGO LAKE... STEUBEN... INDIAN LAKE STATE PARK... MANISTIQUE... GULLIVER... GERMFASK... STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. MRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 40 min | |
| Jul 25, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Delta | 51 min |
| Jul 25, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 40 min | |
| Jul 25, 5:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 87 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.