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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at Jun 20, 2012, 5:26 PM EDT for Houghton County, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 34 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, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Houghton County, MI, Keweenaw County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 299 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.
927
WFUS53 KMQT 202126
TORMQT
MIC061-083-202200-
/O.NEW.KMQT.TO.W.0002.120620T2126Z-120620T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
526 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
HOUGHTON COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN...
KEWEENAW COUNTY IN WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 523 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HUBBELL...OR 8 MILES EAST OF HOUGHTON...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
GAY AROUND 540 PM EDT.
THE WARNING INCLUDES AREAS SURROUNDING THESE LOCATIONS...
RABBIT BAY... BETSY... RICE LAKE...
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 4729 8804 4720 8817 4720 8820 4719 8823
4714 8822 4713 8824 4713 8827 4708 8826
4707 8828 4709 8827 4704 8845 4717 8855
4732 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 2126Z 241DEG 47KT 4714 8835
$$
MCB1 follow-up statement
324
WWUS53 KMQT 202146
SVSMQT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
546 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
MIC061-202154-
/O.CAN.KMQT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120620T2200Z/
HOUGHTON MI-
546 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HOUGHTON COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.
LAT...LON 4730 8804 4726 8808 4720 8817 4720 8822
4720 8829 4722 8831 4725 8830 4732 8807
4732 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 242DEG 37KT 4721 8813
$$
MIC083-202200-
/O.CON.KMQT.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-120620T2200Z/
KEWEENAW MI-
546 PM EDT WED JUN 20 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR KEWEENAW COUNTY UNTIL 600
PM EDT...
AT 542 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GAY...OR 14 MILES EAST OF CALUMET...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM COULD ALSO PRODUCE QUARTER SIZED
HAIL.
THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF KEWEENAW
COUNTY...INCLUDING BETSY.
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 4730 8804 4726 8808 4720 8817 4720 8822
4720 8829 4722 8831 4725 8830 4732 8807
4732 8805
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 242DEG 37KT 4721 8813
$$
MCBThe 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, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Ontonagon | 65 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, 5:37 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.