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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2013, 3:40 PM CDT for Gogebic 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
- May 31, 2013, 3:40 PM CDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2013, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 50.0 mph
County Gogebic County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 172 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 1:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 1:03 PM CDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 4:29 AM CDT, 11 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 529 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-011200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 529 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013 /429 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. SOME STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING COULD PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS TO 35 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. FOG ALONG LAKE MICHIGAN TONIGHT MAY BE DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE 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>267-011200- 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- 529 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013 /429 AM CDT FRI MAY 31 2013/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED. FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY 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. LMZ221-248-250-011200- 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- 529 AM EDT FRI MAY 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS. AREAS OF FOG ARE EXPECTED. THE FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE 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. JLB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 10:04 AM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 33 hr | |
| May 31, 4:28 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 92 min | |
| May 31, 5:34 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 71 min | |
| May 31, 5:59 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 106 min | |
| May 31, 6:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson, Iron | 25 min |
| May 31, 6:45 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 90 min | |
| May 31, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 86 min | |
| May 31, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette | 46 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.