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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Gaylord, MI
NWS Gaylord, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2026, 2:59 PM EDT for Montmorency 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
- May 18, 2026, 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2026, 3:24 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Gaylord, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Montmorency County, MI
The radar
The NCL Michigan radar (KAPX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 12:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -412 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1455 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Gaylord, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 8:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Kalkaska | 45 min |
| May 18, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 53 min | |
| May 18, 12:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Manistee | 67 min |
| May 18, 12:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Benzie | 76 min |
| May 18, 1:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Antrim | 23 min |
| May 18, 1:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Grand Traverse | 49 min |
| May 18, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 44 min | |
| May 18, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Charlevoix, Otsego | 49 min |
| May 18, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Antrim, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska | 45 min |
| May 18, 2:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Crawford, Otsego | 55 min |
| May 18, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Cheboygan, Presque Isle | 51 min |
| May 18, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 55 min | |
| May 18, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Presque Isle | 36 min |
| May 18, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alpena | 27 min |
| May 18, 3:49 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | APX | 46 hr | |
| May 18, 3:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 54 min | |
| May 18, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 28 min | |
| May 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 55 min | |
| May 18, 4:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Arenac, Iosco | 65 min |
| May 18, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 61 min | |
| May 18, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | Alcona | 33 min |
| May 18, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | Alcona | 13 min |
| May 18, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | APX | 29 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.