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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Marquette, MI

August 5, 2019Baraga County, Marquette County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2019, 2:50 PM EDT for Baraga County, Marquette County, Michigan. It was in force for 25 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
Aug 5, 2019, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 5, 2019, 3:15 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Baraga County, MI, Marquette County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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
Aug 5, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 245 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 12:00Z on 2019-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 417 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 12:00Z on 2019-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 55 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
417 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 5, 11:55 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT65 min
Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTHoughton50 min
Aug 5, 2:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTBaraga46 min
Aug 5, 2:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT33 min
Aug 5, 2:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTKeweenaw46 min
Aug 5, 2:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTIron28 min
Aug 5, 2:52 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT23 min
Aug 5, 3:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTMarquette44 min
Aug 5, 3:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTIron39 min
Aug 5, 3:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT24 min
Aug 5, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTDickinson43 min
Aug 5, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTLuce22 min
Aug 5, 3:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTMarquette19 min
Aug 5, 3:57 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT33 min
Aug 5, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTAlger21 min
Aug 5, 4:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT29 min
Aug 5, 4:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT34 min
Aug 5, 4:31 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTAlger, Delta, Schoolcraft44 min
Aug 5, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMQTAlger, Schoolcraft37 min
Aug 5, 4:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT51 min
Aug 5, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTLuce42 min
Aug 5, 5:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementMQTSchoolcraft47 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.