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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2015, 4:11 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Michigan. It was in force for 34 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 28, 2015, 4:11 PM CDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2015, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dickinson County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1265 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 28, 3:52 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 3:52 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 27, 7:43 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Delta | 62 min |
| May 27, 8:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Menominee | 39 min |
| May 27, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Menominee | 49 min |
| May 28, 3:31 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | Alger, Marquette | 4 hr |
| May 28, 8:16 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MQT | Iron | 52 hr |
| May 28, 10:21 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | MQT | Marquette | 12 hr |
| May 28, 3:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Dickinson | 37 min |
| May 28, 3:30 PM CDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 16 hr | |
| May 28, 3:30 PM CDT | Small Craft Advisory | MQT | 22 hr | |
| May 28, 4:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Dickinson | 44 min |
| May 28, 5:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Dickinson | 42 min |
| May 28, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Dickinson | 40 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.