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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Marquette, MI

June 24, 2015Gogebic County, Ontonagon County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2015, 5:51 PM CDT for Gogebic County, Ontonagon County, Michigan. It was in force for 17 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: Jun 24, 2015, 5:51 PM CDT (22:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2015, 6:08 PM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Marquette, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 50.0 mph

Counties Gogebic County, MI, Ontonagon County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:51 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, 10.9 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 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 Jun 24, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 3:38 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:36 PM CDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
236 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

MIZ005-241915-
MARQUETTE MI-
236 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...

AT 234 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
HARVEY...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF MARQUETTE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN...HALF INCH HAIL...AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARQUETTE...HARVEY...K I SAWYER...SANDS...SKANDIA...THE 553 AND 480
CROSSROADS...CARLSHEND...SILVER LAKE AND BEAVER GROVE.

LAT...LON 4637 8754 4654 8747 4653 8739 4649 8733
      4649 8723 4650 8717 4649 8712 4621 8712
TIME...MOT...LOC 1834Z 286DEG 18KT 4644 8740

SRF

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 1:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
258 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

MIZ005-006-013-241945-
MARQUETTE MI-DELTA MI-ALGER MI-
258 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL DELTA...
SOUTHWESTERN ALGER AND EAST CENTRAL MARQUETTE COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM
EDT...

AT 257 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES NORTHWEST OF TRENARY...OR 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MARQUETTE...
MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

HEAVY RAIN...DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
TRENARY...U.S. 41 BETWEEN TRENARY AND RAPID RIVER...MCFARLAND...
DIFFIN...TRAUNIK AND KIVA.

LAT...LON 4620 8731 4636 8716 4630 8683 4609 8698
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 290DEG 17KT 4627 8716

SRF

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 7 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
344 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

MIZ013-014-085-242030-
DELTA MI-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT MI-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT MI-
344 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTHEASTERN DELTA AND WEST
CENTRAL SCHOOLCRAFT COUNTIES UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

AT 344 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
FOREST ROAD 13 IN NORTHERN DELTA COUNTY...OR 22 MILES SOUTH OF
MUNISING...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

NICKEL SIZE HAIL...WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FOREST ROAD 13 IN NORTHERN DELTA COUNTY...ROUND LAKE AND CHICAGO
LAKE.

LAT...LON 4597 8643 4598 8679 4616 8683 4616 8662
      4619 8661 4621 8648
TIME...MOT...LOC 1944Z 260DEG 14KT 4609 8671

SRF

Local storm report, Jun 24, 3:07 PM CDT, 2 hours 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
407 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

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

0300 PM     HAIL             4 SE HARVEY             46.45N 87.29W
06/24/2015  E0.25 INCH       MARQUETTE          MI   PUBLIC

            SOCIAL MEDIA REPORT

&&

DGP

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT, 22 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
629 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

MIZ002-009-242330-
GOGEBIC MI-ONTONAGON MI-
629 PM EDT WED JUN 24 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL GOGEBIC AND SOUTHWESTERN
ONTONAGON COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM EDT/630 PM CDT/...

AT 628 PM EDT /528 PM CDT/...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR NORTHERN LAKE
GOGEBIC TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF WINCHESTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 20
MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTHERN LAKE GOGEBIC AROUND 540 PM CDT.
  MARENISCO AROUND 605 PM CDT.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE MERRIWEATHER...
POMEROY LAKE...EWEN...CHANEY LAKE...LAKE GOGEBIC STATE PARK AND
PRESQUE ISLE RESERVOIR.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4658 8981 4655 8917 4623 8955 4631 9000
      4634 9012
TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 273DEG 20KT 4653 8972 4632 8998

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MQT	Marquette	39 min
Jun 24, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MQT	Alger	47 min
Jun 24, 2:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Alger, Delta	31 min
Jun 24, 2:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MQT	Schoolcraft	46 min
Jun 24, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MQT	Delta, Schoolcraft	27 min
Jun 24, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	MQT	Gogebic	61 min

Nearby

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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.