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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2013, 3:48 PM EDT for Newaygo County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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
- May 30, 2013, 3:48 PM EDT (19:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2013, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Newaygo County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 30, 3:45 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:45 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 5:13 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 513 AM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-310915- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 513 AM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THEY COULD CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THEY WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FOR BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. AN ELEVATED RISK FOR TORNADOES WILL EXIST. IN ADDITION THE LIGHTNING COULD BE FREQUENT AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS PREDICTED. WHERE THE STORMS PERSIST THE RAIN COULD BECOME EXCESSIVE. THE MAIN STORM MOTION WILL BE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS ON SATURDAY WILL TRACK EASTWARD. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. LMZ844>849-310915- ST JOSEPH TO SOUTH HAVEN MI-SOUTH HAVEN TO HOLLAND MI- HOLLAND TO GRAND HAVEN MI-GRAND HAVEN TO WHITEHALL MI- WHITEHALL TO PENTWATER MI-PENTWATER TO MANISTEE MI- 513 AM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT DENSE FOG WILL EXIST INTO THIS EVENING FOR PORTIONS OF THE NEARSHORE WATERS. HAZARDOUS WIND CONDITIONS WILL EXIST THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. THEY COULD CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THEY WILL BE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL BE POSSIBLE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED FOR BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. MJS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 12:48 PM EDT, 3 hours before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 1248 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-301900- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LUDINGTON...BALDWIN...REED CITY...CLARE... HART...FREMONT...BIG RAPIDS...MOUNT PLEASANT...MUSKEGON... GREENVILLE...ALMA...JENISON...GRAND RAPIDS...IONIA...ST. JOHNS... HOLLAND...HASTINGS...CHARLOTTE...LANSING...SOUTH HAVEN...KALAMAZOO... BATTLE CREEK...JACKSON 1248 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN THROUGH 2 PM. THE BEST CHANCES FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EAST OF A HOLLAND TO REED CITY LINE. MOST STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS BUT A FEW WILL BRING UP TO PENNY SIZED HAIL AND FREQUENT CLOUD- TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. TJT
Local storm report, May 30, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:23 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | GRR | 48 hr | |
| May 30, 11:29 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | GRR | Barry | 71 hr |
| May 30, 1:28 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | GRR | Mason, Muskegon, Oceana | 38 hr |
| May 30, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clare | 38 min |
| May 30, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Isabella | 38 min |
| May 30, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun | 42 min |
| May 30, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.