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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Marquette, MI

July 25, 2013Baraga County, Houghton County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2013, 3:39 PM EDT for Baraga County, Houghton County, Michigan. It was in force for 51 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: Jul 25, 2013, 3:39 PM EDT (19:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Baraga County, MI, Houghton County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 265 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1229 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 25, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 1:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 25, 4:14 AM EDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 25, 2:48 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 25, 2:59 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
259 PM EDT THU JUL 25 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0255 PM     HAIL             3 NNE ALSTON            46.81N 88.72W
07/25/2013  M0.50 INCH       HOUGHTON           MI   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WIND GUSTS WERE ALSO ESTIMATED TO BE AROUND 40 MPH WITH
            HEAVY RAINFALL.

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KCOOLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	MQT		74 min
Jul 25, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Baraga, Marquette	39 min
Jul 25, 5:20 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	MQT		46 hr
Jul 25, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	38 min
Jul 25, 7:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Menominee	23 min
Jul 25, 7:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Delta, Dickinson, Marquette, Menominee	27 min
Jul 25, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Ontonagon	39 min
Jul 25, 7:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	MQT	Dickinson, Menominee	46 min
Jul 25, 7:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MQT	Dickinson, Menominee	3 hr
Jul 25, 7:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Gogebic	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2013 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2013

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.