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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2015, 8:35 AM EDT for Delta County, Menominee County, Michigan. It was in force for 32 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
- Aug 2, 2015, 8:35 AM EDT (12:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2015, 9:07 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Delta County, MI, Menominee County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
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 Aug 1, 7:48 PM EDT, 12 hours 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 7:48 PM EDT, 12 hours 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 34 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Ontonagon | 56 min |
| Aug 2, 6:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Houghton, Ontonagon | 40 min |
| Aug 2, 6:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Baraga | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 6:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga | 38 min |
| Aug 2, 7:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Baraga, Iron, Marquette | 39 min |
| Aug 2, 7:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Iron | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 7:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson, Marquette | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 7:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Delta, Menominee | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 8:06 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 84 min | |
| Aug 2, 8:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Alger, Delta, Schoolcraft | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 9:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Menominee | 23 min |
| Aug 2, 10:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Iron | 46 min |
| Aug 2, 11:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Iron | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 11:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Dickinson | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Menominee | 27 min |
| Aug 2, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Dickinson | 52 min |
| Aug 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Menominee | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 37 min |
| Aug 2, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | MQT | 43 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.