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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2024, 12:13 AM EDT for Barry County, Michigan. It was in force for 62 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
- Jul 15, 2024, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2024, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Barry County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 307 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1913 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 Jul 14, 10:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 10:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 11:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 115 min | |
| Jul 15, 2:02 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Kent, Ottawa | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:25 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GRR | Kent | 5 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Ionia, Kent | 4 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Clinton, Eaton, Ingham | 3 hr |
| Jul 15, 3:42 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Clinton, Ingham | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 11:11 AM EDT | Flood Watch | GRR | Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham and 7 more | 15 hr |
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.