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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Gaylord, MI

June 13, 2024Chippewa County, Mackinac County, Michigan

NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2024, 2:38 PM EDT for Chippewa County, Mackinac County, Michigan. It was in force for 52 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 13, 2024, 2:38 PM EDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2024, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Gaylord, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Chippewa County, MI, Mackinac County, MI

The radar

The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 325 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 87 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -335 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 355 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 1:45 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:33 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Gaylord MI
233 PM EDT Thu Jun 13 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1251 PM     Non-Tstm Wnd Gst 1 SSW Gaylord           45.02N 84.68W
06/13/2024  M39 MPH          Otsego             MI   ASOS

            ASOS station KGLR Gaylord - Otsego County
            Airport.

&&

JZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 1:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		23 min
Jun 13, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Mackinac	42 min
Jun 13, 2:30 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	APX		6 hr
Jun 13, 2:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		44 min
Jun 13, 2:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		54 min
Jun 13, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Mackinac	23 min
Jun 13, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		56 min
Jun 13, 3:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		64 min
Jun 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	APX	Chippewa	33 min
Jun 13, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		67 min
Jun 13, 4:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		76 min
Jun 13, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		24 min
Jun 13, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	APX	Cheboygan	41 min
Jun 13, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		2 hr
Jun 13, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		29 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	APX		47 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.