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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

September 3, 2019Van Buren County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2019, 10:08 PM EDT for Van Buren County, Michigan. It was in force for 67 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: Sep 3, 2019, 10:08 PM EDT (02:08 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2019, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Van Buren County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 3, 7:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 7:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 3, 5:08 PM EDT, 5 hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Clare	37 min
Sep 3, 8:36 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRR		19 hr
Sep 3, 8:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		65 min
Sep 3, 9:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		22 min
Sep 3, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		47 min
Sep 3, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Eaton, Ingham	7 min
Sep 4, 3:46 AM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Advisory	GRR	Allegan, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Van Buren	12 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.