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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Marquette, MI

June 11, 2017Delta County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2017, 11:17 PM EDT for Delta County, Michigan. It was in force for 43 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 11, 2017, 11:17 PM EDT (03:17 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2017, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Delta County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 11, 9:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2017-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 428 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Green Bay/Straub, WI at 00:00Z on 2017-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 288 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
428 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-274 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1257 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
452 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.0

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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 11, 3:06 PM EDT, 8 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 3:06 PM EDT, 8 hours 11 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:09 PM EDT, 4 hours 8 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 7:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:50 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Iron45 min
Jun 11, 8:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTIron45 min
Jun 11, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson, Iron57 min
Jun 11, 9:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson67 min
Jun 11, 10:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMarquette, Menominee38 min
Jun 11, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDickinson53 min
Jun 11, 10:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTDelta35 min
Jun 11, 10:36 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT54 min
Jun 11, 10:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee47 min
Jun 11, 11:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT40 min
Jun 11, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTMenominee46 min
Jun 11, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTSchoolcraft47 min
Jun 11, 11:45 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT60 min
Jun 12, 12:16 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMQTDelta, Marquette, Menominee6 hr
Jun 12, 1:58 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT92 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2017Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2017

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.