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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Marquette, MI

May 25, 2020Dickinson County, Michigan

NWS Marquette, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 2020, 7:36 PM CDT for Dickinson County, Michigan. It was in force for 24 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
May 25, 2020, 7:36 PM CDT (00:36 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 2020, 8:00 PM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Marquette, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Dickinson County, MI

The radar

The Marquette radar (KMQT), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 2020-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 337 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 2020-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 69 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
337 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1626 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 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
May 26, 4:20 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT25 min
May 26, 6:07 PM CDTSpecial Marine WarningMQT38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2020Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2020

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.