Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2012, 4:25 PM EDT for Ontonagon County, Michigan. It was in force for 65 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 20, 2012, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2012, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Ontonagon County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 657 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1078 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
521
WUUS53 KMQT 202025
SVRMQT
MIC131-202130-
/O.NEW.KMQT.SV.W.0021.120620T2025Z-120620T2130Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
425 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ONTONAGON COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN...
* UNTIL 530 PM EDT
* AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF SILVER
CITY TO 10 MILES WEST OF SILVER CITY TO 7 MILES NORTH OF
BESSEMER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ONTONAGON...SILVER CITY...BERGLAND...ROCKLAND...MASS CITY...MIRROR
LAKE...CLARK LAKE...MERRIWEATHER...WHITE PINE...NORWICH...FOURTEEN
MILE POINT AND GREENLAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4680 8986 4682 8983 4684 8969 4683 8962
4685 8944 4691 8924 4700 8913 4699 8909
4703 8893 4677 8894 4676 8886 4668 8886
4668 8899 4660 8899 4650 8958 4651 8974
4659 8974 4660 8987
TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 241DEG 59KT 4706 8977 4682 8973
4660 8997
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$
MRD1 follow-up statement
572
WWUS53 KMQT 202050
SVSMQT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
450 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
MIC131-202130-
/O.CON.KMQT.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120620T2130Z/
ONTONAGON MI-
450 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ONTONAGON
COUNTY UNTIL 530 PM EDT...
AT 444 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE
LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF ONTONAGON TO
ONTONAGON TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SILVER CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
60 MPH. HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROCKLAND...MASS CITY...FOURTEEN MILE POINT AND GREENLAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 60 MILES PER
HOUR...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DO NOT DRIVE
INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
&&
LAT...LON 4680 8986 4682 8983 4684 8969 4683 8962
4685 8944 4691 8924 4700 8913 4699 8909
4703 8893 4677 8894 4676 8886 4668 8886
4668 8899 4660 8899 4650 8958 4651 8974
4659 8974 4660 8987
TIME...MOT...LOC 2049Z 243DEG 56KT 4719 8929 4697 8924
4677 8935
WIND...HAIL 60MPH 1.00IN
$$
JLAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 82 min | |
| Jun 19, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 2 hr | |
| Jun 19, 10:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 72 min | |
| Jun 19, 11:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 94 min | |
| Jun 20, 1:16 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 74 min | |
| Jun 20, 1:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 117 min | |
| Jun 20, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Keweenaw | 82 min |
| Jun 20, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 105 min | |
| Jun 20, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Houghton, Keweenaw | 51 min |
| Jun 20, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 81 min | |
| Jun 20, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Keweenaw | 41 min |
| Jun 20, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 54 min | |
| Jun 20, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 55 min | |
| Jun 20, 5:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | Gogebic, Ontonagon | 6 hr |
| Jun 20, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Houghton | 48 min |
| Jun 20, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 52 min | |
| Jun 20, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MQT | Houghton, Keweenaw | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic | 38 min |
| Jun 20, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 33 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.