Alert archive / Michigan / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Marquette, MI
NWS Marquette, MI issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2016, 3:02 PM EDT for Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2016, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2016, 3:33 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Marquette, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 1.0 in
County Marquette County, MI
The radar
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:02 PM EDT | TORNADO | 5 Wsw National Mine, MI | TRAMPOLINE IN BACKYARD WAS DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR. LAWN FURNITURE WAS TOSSED INTO THE WOODS AND DAMAGED. APPLE TREE UPROOTED. SEVERAL LARGE SPRUCE TREES SNAPPED. DELAYED REPORT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1905 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
882
WFUS53 KMQT 241902
TORMQT
MIC103-241945-
/O.NEW.KMQT.TO.W.0004.160524T1902Z-160524T1945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
302 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MARQUETTE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CENTRAL MARQUETTE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN...
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT
* AT 301 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR WEST ISHPEMING...OR NEAR ISHPEMING...MOVING EAST AT
25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS
WILL BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARQUETTE...ISHPEMING...NEGAUNEE...WEST ISHPEMING...TROWBRIDGE PARK...
SANDS...NATIONAL MINE...THE 553 AND 480 CROSSROADS AND PALMER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER
AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4639 8782 4646 8785 4656 8743 4639 8740
TIME...MOT...LOC 1901Z 261DEG 23KT 4644 8779
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
KEC3 follow-up statements
990
WWUS53 KMQT 241915
SVSMQT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
315 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
MIC103-241945-
/O.CON.KMQT.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160524T1945Z/
MARQUETTE MI-
315 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
MARQUETTE COUNTY...
AT 314 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER ISHPEMING...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL
BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
MARQUETTE...ISHPEMING...NEGAUNEE...WEST ISHPEMING...TROWBRIDGE PARK...
SANDS...NATIONAL MINE...THE 553 AND 480 CROSSROADS AND PALMER.
LAT...LON 4639 8775 4648 8778 4656 8743 4639 8740
TIME...MOT...LOC 1914Z 256DEG 23KT 4645 8768
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN
$$
KEC002
WWUS53 KMQT 241926
SVSMQT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
326 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
MIC103-241945-
/O.CON.KMQT.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160524T1945Z/
MARQUETTE MI-
326 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL
MARQUETTE COUNTY...
AT 326 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR NEGAUNEE...OR NEAR ISHPEMING...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE TO
ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. FLYING DEBRIS WILL
BE DEADLY TO PEOPLE AND ANIMALS. TREE DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NEGAUNEE...SANDS...THE 553 AND 480 CROSSROADS AND PALMER.
LAT...LON 4639 8766 4648 8767 4650 8742 4639 8740
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 266DEG 25KT 4645 8757
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
KEC301
WWUS53 KMQT 241933
SVSMQT
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI
333 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
MIC103-241943-
/O.CAN.KMQT.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160524T1945Z/
MARQUETTE MI-
333 PM EDT TUE MAY 24 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MARQUETTE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER APPEARS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4639 8766 4648 8767 4650 8742 4639 8740
TIME...MOT...LOC 1932Z 261DEG 23KT 4646 8750
$$
KECThe office that day
Everything else NWS Marquette, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 12:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Ontonagon | 36 min |
| May 24, 2:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | MQT | Baraga, Marquette | 33 min |
| May 24, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic, Ontonagon | 36 min |
| May 24, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | Iron | 64 min |
| May 24, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | Gogebic, Iron | 66 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.