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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 254
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 1, 2018, 6:35 PM EDT for 28 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2018, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2018, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 28 counties
Allegan County, MI, Antrim County, MI, Barry County, MI, Benzie County, MI, Charlevoix County, MI, Cheboygan County, MI, Chippewa County, MI, Crawford County, MI, Emmet County, MI, Grand Traverse County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Kalkaska County, MI, Kent County, MI, Lake County, MI, Leelanau County, MI, Mackinac County, MI, Manistee County, MI, Mason County, MI, Mecosta County, MI, Missaukee County, MI, Montcalm County, MI, Muskegon County, MI, Newaygo County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Osceola County, MI, Otsego County, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Wexford County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 20%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 60%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mason, Oceana | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Benzie, Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Manistee, Wexford | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Charlevoix, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake, Newaygo | 43 min |
| Jul 1, 7:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Kent, Ottawa | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Grand Traverse, Manistee, Wexford | 50 min |
| Jul 1, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Osceola | 45 min |
| Jul 1, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Kalkaska, Missaukee | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Kent | 38 min |
| Jul 1, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mecosta, Montcalm, Newaygo | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Crawford, Kalkaska, Otsego | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 9:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Isabella, Mecosta | 40 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1272 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 9:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Delta, Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron, Menominee | 85 min |
| Jul 1, 12:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Menominee | 83 min |
| Jul 1, 1:04 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alger, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Luce, Marquette and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alger, Baraga, Delta, Dickinson, Iron, Luce and 3 more | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 4:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Delta, Luce, Mackinac, Menominee, Schoolcraft | 87 min |
| Jul 1, 6:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Antrim, Benzie, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Chippewa, Clare and 16 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Berrien, Cass, Van Buren | 114 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.