Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2012, 8:24 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 36 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2012, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2012, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:24 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:30 PM EDT | TORNADO | 9 Sw Big Bay, MI | POSSIBLE TORNADO REPORTED AT EAGLE MINE. DEBRIS BLOWN AROUND, POWER LINE DOWN, NUMEROUS TREES DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS53 KMQT 090024
TORMQT
MIC103-090100-
/O.NEW.KMQT.TO.W.0001.120609T0024Z-120609T0100Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
824 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHWESTERN MARQUETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN...
* UNTIL 900 PM EDT
* AT 820 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES WEST OF BIG BAY...OR 23 MILES EAST OF
L'ANSE...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN
MARQUETTE COUNTY INCLUDING KENNECOTT MINE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4686 8800 4679 8769 4665 8775 4668 8799
4676 8799 4676 8804 4679 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 0024Z 289DEG 24KT 4676 8792
$$
MRD2 follow-up statements
240 WWUS53 KMQT 090032 SVSMQT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 832 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 MIC103-090100- /O.CON.KMQT.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120609T0100Z/ MARQUETTE MI- 832 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL MARQUETTE COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM EDT... AT 829 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BIG BAY...OR 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF ISHPEMING...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY INCLUDING KENNECOTT MINE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 4684 8792 4679 8769 4665 8775 4668 8799 TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 288DEG 21KT 4674 8786 $$ MRD
299 WWUS53 KMQT 090050 SVSMQT SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 850 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 MIC103-090101- /O.EXP.KMQT.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120609T0100Z/ MARQUETTE MI- 850 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL MARQUETTE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 900 PM EDT/800 PM CDT/... THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS EXPIRED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN MARQUETTE COUNTY. LAT...LON 4684 8792 4679 8769 4665 8775 4668 8799 TIME...MOT...LOC 0051Z 288DEG 21KT 4670 8771 $$ MRD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Marquette | 62 min |
| Jun 8, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 8:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 65 min | |
| Jun 8, 10:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 35 min | |
| Jun 8, 10:25 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 34 min | |
| Jun 8, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Schoolcraft | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 12:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 93 min | |
| Jun 9, 9:59 AM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 22 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.