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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Grand Rapids, MI
NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 14, 2026, 3:43 AM EDT for Muskegon County, Oceana County, Ottawa County, Michigan. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 14, 2026, 3:43 AM EDT (07:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2026, 4:28 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Grand Rapids, MI
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Muskegon County, MI, Oceana County, MI, Ottawa County, MI
The radar
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 13, 11:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1416 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Apr 14, 3:10 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 3:10 AM EDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Grand Rapids, MI issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 13, 8:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Eaton, Ionia, Kent | 47 min |
| Apr 13, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clinton, Ionia | 61 min |
| Apr 13, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Ionia | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Gratiot | 36 min |
| Apr 13, 10:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 38 min | |
| Apr 13, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Mason | 39 min |
| Apr 13, 11:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Lake, Mason, Newaygo, Oceana | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clare, Osceola | 53 min |
| Apr 14, 12:47 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 58 min | |
| Apr 14, 1:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Clinton | 41 min |
| Apr 14, 1:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Lake, Mason, Osceola | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:08 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GRR | Mason | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | GRR | Lake, Osceola | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | GRR | 2 hr | |
| Apr 14, 2:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | GRR | Clare | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Allegan, Van Buren | 68 min |
| Apr 14, 4:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Kent | 45 min |
| Apr 14, 4:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Gratiot, Isabella, Mecosta, Montcalm | 43 min |
| Apr 14, 4:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Barry, Ionia, Kalamazoo, Van Buren | 38 min |
| Apr 14, 5:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GRR | Clare, Isabella | 21 min |
| Apr 14, 5:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Calhoun, Clinton, Eaton, Ingham, Jackson | 92 min |
| Apr 14, 5:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | GRR | Barry, Gratiot, Kalamazoo | 36 min |
| Apr 14, 11:27 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | GRR | Ingham | 5 days |
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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.