Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2014
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2014, 1:54 PM EDT for Delta County, Schoolcraft 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
- May 8, 2014, 1:54 PM EDT (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 2014, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Delta County, MI, Schoolcraft County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:56 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.5
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 8, 7:46 AM EDT, 6 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 8, 7:46 AM EDT, 6 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 4:33 AM EDT, 9 hours 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 433 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-091215- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 433 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 /333 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT EXPECT HIGHER FLOWS ON AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS DUE TO SNOW MELT RUNOFF AND RAIN. MONITOR RIVER LEVELS AND STAY TUNED FOR RIVER FORECAST UPDATES. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY EXPECT HIGHER FLOWS ON AREA RIVERS AND STREAMS DUE TO SNOW MELT RUNOFF AND FORECASTED RAINFALL. SOME RIVERS MAY STAY HIGH THROUGH THIS WEEKEND DUE TO ADDITIONAL RAIN EXPECTED THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY. MONITOR RIVER LEVELS AND STAY TUNED FOR RIVER FORECAST UPDATES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO RELAY HIGHER RIVER LEVELS AND REPORTS OF HEAVY RAIN AND HAIL TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-091215- 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- 433 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 /333 AM CDT THU MAY 8 2014/ 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 THROUGH TONIGHT. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. FOG WILL DEVELOP TODAY AND LAST THROUGH TONIGHT. THE FOG COULD BE DENSE WITH AREAS OF LOW VISIBILITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOG WILL CONTINUE THROUGH FRIDAY. THE FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-091215- 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- 433 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT. FOG WILL ALSO DEVELOP TODAY AND LAST THROUGH TONIGHT. THE FOG COULD BE DENSE WITH AREAS OF LOW VISIBILITIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FOG WILL CONTINUE FRIDAY. THE FOG MAY BE LOCALLY DENSE AT TIMES FRIDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 8, 9:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
904 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0545 AM HAIL 2 SW BAGLEY 45.53N 87.62W
05/08/2014 M0.50 INCH MENOMINEE MI COCORAHS
TWO SEPARATE INSTANCES OF HAIL OVER A 15
MINUTE PERIOD.
&&
NWS MARQUETTE MI
IRIS SYSTEMLocal storm report, May 8, 9:18 AM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
918 AM EDT THU MAY 8 2014
...TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
...DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0800 AM HEAVY RAIN MOHAWK 47.31N 88.36W
05/08/2014 M1.13 INCH KEWEENAW MI COOP OBSERVER
COOP OBSERVER STATION MOHAWK /MHKM4/ HEAVY
RAIN DURATION 24 HOURS
0815 AM HEAVY RAIN 3 ESE LAURIUM 47.23N 88.39W
05/08/2014 M1.00 INCH HOUGHTON MI MESONET
MESONET STATION 2 E LAURIUM /TRRM4/ HEAVY
RAIN DURATION 24 HOURS
&&
NWS MARQUETTE MI
IRIS SYSTEMSpecial weather statement, May 8, 1:24 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 124 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 MIZ013-014-085-081815- DELTA-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 124 PM EDT THU MAY 8 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT FOR DELTA AND SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM EDT... AT 120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF GARDEN CORNERS...OR 20 MILES WEST OF MANISTIQUE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. * LOCATIONS IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CHICAGO LAKE... COOKS... INDIAN LAKE STATE PARK... STEUBEN... MANISTIQUE... BLANEY PARK... STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...COMMERCIAL RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL TELEVISION STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS CONCERNING THIS WEATHER SITUATION. KC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 10:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 64 min | |
| May 8, 7:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 71 min | |
| May 8, 8:48 AM EDT | River Flood Advisory | MQT | Houghton | 23 hr |
| May 8, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Luce, Schoolcraft | 64 min |
| May 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 25 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2014Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014
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.