Alert archive / Michigan / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2015
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2015, 3:12 PM EDT for Alcona County, Iosco County, Michigan. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2015, 3:12 PM EDT (19:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Alcona County, MI, Iosco County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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
Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 972 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1114 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
659
WUUS53 KAPX 141912
SVRAPX
MIC001-069-142000-
/O.NEW.KAPX.SV.W.0039.150814T1912Z-150814T2000Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
312 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GAYLORD HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL ALCONA COUNTY IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN...
NORTHEASTERN IOSCO COUNTY IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN...
* UNTIL 400 PM EDT
* AT 312 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BARTON
CITY...OR 10 MILES WEST OF HARRISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
HAZARD...PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL AND 60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...PEOPLE AND ANIMALS OUTDOORS WILL BE INJURED. EXPECT HAIL
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES. EXPECT
WIND DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OSCODA...HARRISVILLE...AU SABLE...MIKADO...LINCOLN...HUBBARD
LAKE...WURTSMITH AIRFIELD...BARTON CITY AND LOST LAKE WOODS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4462 8331 4439 8333 4435 8338 4472 8379
4474 8378 4485 8353 4484 8350 4467 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 316DEG 13KT 4464 8351
HAIL...1.50IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JPB1 follow-up statement
938
WWUS53 KAPX 141931
SVSAPX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI
331 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 2015
MIC001-069-142000-
/O.CON.KAPX.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-150814T2000Z/
ALCONA MI-IOSCO MI-
331 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 2015
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHEASTERN ALCONA AND NORTHEASTERN IOSCO COUNTIES...
AT 330 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
EXTENDING FROM WURTSMITH AIRFIELD TO BARTON CITY...MOVING SOUTH AT 15
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...SIDING AND TREES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
OSCODA...AU SABLE...MIKADO...LINCOLN...BARTON CITY AND WURTSMITH
AIRFIELD.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY LEAD TO
FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.
&&
LAT...LON 4439 8333 4435 8338 4466 8372 4477 8350
4462 8331
TIME...MOT...LOC 1930Z 345DEG 14KT 4445 8341 4469 8361
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
JPBThe office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 12:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 39 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 29 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 66 min | |
| Aug 14, 1:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Mackinac | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 1:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Chippewa | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Chippewa, Mackinac | 46 min |
| Aug 14, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse, Kalkaska | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 3:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford, Kalkaska, Missaukee, Roscommon | 26 min |
| Aug 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| Aug 14, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Presque Isle | 36 min |
| Aug 14, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Roscommon | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Alpena, Oscoda | 30 min |
| Aug 14, 4:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Alcona | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Arenac, Iosco, Ogemaw | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 4:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | APX | Alcona, Arenac, Iosco | 5 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Iosco | 32 min |
| Aug 14, 5:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | APX | Arenac, Iosco | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Iosco, Ogemaw, Oscoda | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 5:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 50 min | |
| Aug 14, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona, Oscoda | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 7:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Roscommon | 37 min |
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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.