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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2013, 11:55 AM EDT for Kent County, Ottawa County, Michigan. It was in force for 50 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
- Jun 25, 2013, 11:55 AM EDT (15:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2013, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Kent County, MI, Ottawa County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 269 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 924 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 7:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 7:13 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 332 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-260745- MASON-LAKE-OSCEOLA-CLARE-OCEANA-NEWAYGO-MECOSTA-ISABELLA-MUSKEGON- MONTCALM-GRATIOT-OTTAWA-KENT-IONIA-CLINTON-ALLEGAN-BARRY-EATON- INGHAM-VAN BUREN-KALAMAZOO-CALHOUN-JACKSON- 332 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS AND OCCASIONALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL MOVE THROUGH LOWER MICHIGAN THIS MORNING. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT...WITH SOME MINOR FLOODING POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LMZ844>849-260745- 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- 332 AM EDT TUE JUN 25 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL POSE HAZARDS TO BOATERS AND SWIMMERS TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL...ESPECIALLY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AT TIMES THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL OR FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 53 min |
| Jun 25, 4:46 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 59 min | |
| Jun 25, 5:31 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 11:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Ottawa | 63 min |
| Jun 25, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Van Buren | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Kalamazoo | 52 min |
| Jun 25, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kalamazoo | 60 min |
| Jun 25, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun | 54 min |
| Jun 25, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun, Jackson, Kalamazoo | 64 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.