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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 2026, 4:08 PM EDT for Kent County, Michigan. It was in force for 73 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 3, 2026, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2026, 5:21 PM EDT
- In force
- 73 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
County Kent County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 118 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1382 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 75 min | |
| Jul 2, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 3 hr | |
| Jul 2, 9:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Muskegon, Oceana | 94 min |
| Jul 2, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Allegan, Van Buren | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 12:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Barry, Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson, Kalamazoo | 93 min |
| Jul 3, 5:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson | 96 min |
| Jul 3, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 2 hr | |
| Jul 3, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Allegan, Ottawa, Van Buren | 90 min |
| Jul 3, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Calhoun, Kalamazoo | 86 min |
| Jul 3, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton, Ingham, Jackson | 93 min |
| Jul 3, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Barry | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Jackson | 86 min |
| Jul 3, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 59 min |
| Jul 3, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton | 62 min |
| Jul 3, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton, Ingham | 68 min |
| Jul 3, 5:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | GRR | Ingham | 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.