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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

June 16, 2022Gratiot County, Isabella County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 2022, 3:48 AM EDT for Gratiot County, Isabella County, Michigan. It was in force for 27 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 16, 2022, 3:48 AM EDT (07:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 2022, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Gratiot County, MI, Isabella County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:48 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

Alpena, MI (KAPX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 257 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2022-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1341 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, Alpena, MI at 00:00Z on 2022-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
1341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 Jun 15, 7:42 PM EDT, 8 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:42 PM EDT, 8 hours 6 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 10:29 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGRRLake, Newaygo61 min
Jun 16, 1:07 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGRR53 min
Jun 16, 2:21 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningGRR54 min
Jun 16, 2:29 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGRRKent61 min
Jun 16, 3:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGRRGratiot, Ionia, Montcalm59 min
Jun 16, 5:15 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGRRCalhoun, Kalamazoo60 min
Jun 16, 6:30 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementGRRCalhoun, Ingham, Jackson60 min
Jun 16, 7:19 AM EDTMarine Dense Fog AdvisoryGRR4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Michigan, 2022Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2022

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.