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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Grand Rapids, MI

July 27, 2026Van Buren County, Michigan

NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2026, 8:13 AM EDT for Van Buren County, Michigan. It was in force for 29 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 27, 2026, 8:13 AM EDT (12:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2026, 8:42 AM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Grand Rapids, MI
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Van Buren County, MI

The radar

The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Green Bay/Straub, WI (KGRB), launched 12:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 284 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: 3288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 750 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 34.3

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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 Jul 27, 6:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 6:58 AM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 27, 7:34 AM EDT, 39 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 3:48 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	GRR		46 hr
Jul 27, 3:50 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	GRR	Allegan, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana, Ottawa, Van Buren	46 hr
Jul 27, 6:11 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		64 min
Jul 27, 7:04 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		56 min
Jul 27, 7:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Allegan, Van Buren	86 min
Jul 27, 8:00 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Van Buren	5 hr
Jul 27, 10:41 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		64 min
Jul 27, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		31 min
Jul 27, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		88 min
Jul 27, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		2 hr
Jul 27, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GRR	Mason, Muskegon, Oceana	36 min
Jul 27, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		67 min
Jul 27, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	GRR		2 hr
Jul 27, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	GRR	Kent	34 min
Jul 27, 4:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	GRR	Kent	2 hr

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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.