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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 30, 2013, 5:02 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 43 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, 5:02 PM CDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2013, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Dickinson County, MI, Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 30, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 30, 3:34 PM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 30, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 444 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-310845- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 444 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 /344 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. SOME STORMS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN COULD PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH THIS EVENING. FOG ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN TONIGHT MAY BE DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. SOME FROST IS POSSIBLE INLAND FROM THE GREAT LAKES SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-310845- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 444 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 /344 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED. FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHT. FOG WILL LINGER FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING...AND THE FOG MAY BE DENSE AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-310845- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 444 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED. THE FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. FOG WILL LINGER THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON...AND THE FOG MAY BE DENSE AT TIMES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. VOSS
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 30, 4:14 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, May 30, 4:34 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 434 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013 MIZ004-009>011-084-302215- BARAGA-DICKINSON-GOGEBIC-IRON-SOUTHERN HOUGHTON- 434 PM CDT THU MAY 30 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR BARAGA...DICKINSON...GOGEBIC... HOUGHTON AND IRON COUNTIES UNTIL 515 PM CDT/615 PM EDT/... AT 530 PM EDT/430 PM CDT/...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM PAULDING TO KINGSFORD...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF IRON RIVER TO KINGSFORD. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... IRON MOUNTAIN... PAINT LAKE... RANDVILLE... WAY DAM... ECHO LAKE... WATTON... STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 007
Special weather statement, May 30, 4:47 PM CDT, 15 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 547 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 MIZ005-010-011-302230- DICKINSON-IRON-MARQUETTE- 547 PM EDT THU MAY 30 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DICKINSON...IRON AND MARQUETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 630 PM EDT/530 PM CDT/... AT 444 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF AMASA TO 7 MILES WEST OF FELCH...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF CRYSTAL FALLS TO 13 MILES NORTH OF IRON MOUNTAIN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE... CHANNING... FELCH... WITCH LAKE... REPUBLIC... CHAMPION... DIORITE... STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. 007
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 8:11 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 50 hr | |
| May 30, 3:23 PM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 12 hr | |
| May 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 60 min | |
| May 30, 6:30 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 60 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.