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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Marquette, MI

July 22, 2014Keweenaw County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2014, 4:18 AM EDT for Keweenaw County, Michigan. It was in force for 57 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 22, 2014, 4:18 AM EDT (08:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 22, 2014, 5:15 AM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Keweenaw County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 22, 2:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 312 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2014-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 71 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2014-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 26 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-435 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
79 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 22, 1:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 3:24 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT111 min
Jul 22, 3:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTGogebic, Ontonagon66 min
Jul 22, 5:10 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT95 min
Jul 22, 5:34 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT101 min
Jul 22, 7:22 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT53 min
Jul 22, 7:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette29 min

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.