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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2013, 5:36 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 39 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 31, 2013, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2013, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 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 Jul 31, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 31, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 315 PM EDT WED JUL 31 2013 MIZ006-312000- ALGER- 315 PM EDT WED JUL 31 2013 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR ALGER COUNTY UNTIL 400 PM EDT... AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTH OF AU TRAIN...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF MUNISING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... GRAND ISLAND... CHRISTMAS... MUNISING... WETMORE... GRAND PORTAL POINT... MELSTRAND... IF ON OR NEAR ECHO LAKE ON GRAND ISLAND...GET OUT OF THE WATER AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE OUT TO 15 MILES FROM THE PARENT THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER NOW. DON'T BE CAUGHT ON THE WATER IN A THUNDERSTORM! STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. KLUBER
Local storm report, Jul 31, 4:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 3:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 43 min | |
| Jul 31, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Schoolcraft | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 90 min | |
| Jul 31, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Marquette | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 6:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 92 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2013Every 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.