1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Grand Rapids, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 29, 3:20 AM EST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 420 AM EDT MON JUL 29 2002 MAIN CHALLENGE IS SVR WX POTENTIAL TODAY. SCATTERED CONVECTION CONTINUES TO ADVANCE SLOWLY FROM THE WEST EARLY THIS MORNING AHEAD OF THE APPROACHING MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED SURFACE COLD FRONT. OVERALL THE ACTIVITY HAS BEEN GENERALLY WEAKENING OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS...APPARENTLY BECAUSE IT IS OUTRUNNING AREA OF BEST UPPER LEVEL DIVERGENCE. HOWEVER THE LOW LEVEL JET APPEARS TO BE STRENGTHENING A BIT ON THE WOLCOTT INDIANA PROFILER AND THE LATEST RUC IS BRINGING ABOUT A 30 KNOT 850 JET INTO THE AREA THIS MORNING. THIS APPEARS TO BE WHAT IS FUELING THE STORMS CURRENTLY DEVELOPING IN SRN LK MI AND WOULD EXPECT THESE TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE/INTENSITY THIS MORNING IF INDEED THE LOW LEVEL JET IS STRENGTHENING. LITTLE CHANGE NEEDED TO THE GOING FCST AND WILL MAINTAIN THE LIKELY POPS TODAY. VERY MOIST AIR MASS WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID 70S AND PRECIPITABLE WATERS AROUND 2 INCHES EXISTS OUT AHEAD OF THE SHORTWAVE AND SFC FRONT...SO THERE IS A VERY GOOD OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL TODAY. EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER APPROACHING FROM THE WEST WILL LIMIT HEATING THIS MORNING AND DEGREE OF INSTABILITY THIS AFTERNOON... IN AT LEAST THE NW HALF OF THE CWFA. IT CURRENTLY LOOKS LIKE THE SE PORTION OF THE CWFA WILL SEE A FAIR AMOUNT OF SUNSHINE THIS MORNING... SO TEND TO THINK TO BEST CHANCE OF SVR TODAY IS SOUTH AND EAST OF A BEH TO ALMA LINE. RUC HAS CAPES REACHING 2500 J/KG IN THIS AREA WITH THE LIFTED INDEX AROUND -7. SE SECTIONS WILL LIKELY ALSO SEE HEAT INDICES APPROACH 100 DEGREES BASED ON CURRENT DEW POINTS AND PROJECTED HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S. UNIDIRECTIONAL SW FLOW ON THE FCST SOUNDINGS AND STRENGTHENING MID LEVEL FLOW (45 KTS AT 500 MB) SUGGEST STRAIGHT LINE WINDS ARE THE MAIN SVR WX THREAT TODAY... ALTHOUGH THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL UPSTREAM YESTERDAY SO CANNOT RULE OUT SVR HAIL DESPITE HIGH FREEZING LEVELS AND WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS. WITH THE WARM FRONT NORTH OF HERE...LOW LEVEL HELICITY VALUES ARE NOT VERY IMPRESSIVE (<100) AND TORNADO THREAT DOES NOT APPEAR TOO HIGH TODAY. AFTER TODAY THE FCST IS VERY STRAIGHT FORWARD. FRONT MOVES THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING...ENDING THE SHOWER/TSTM THREAT AND BRINGING CLEARING SKIES. MOSTLY SUNNY AND SLIGHTLY LESS HUMID CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR TUESDAY...HOWEVER NOT ANY COOLER. MEADE EXTENDED FORECAST THE MEDIUM RANGE MODELS WERE PRETTY SIMILAR TONIGHT AND SHOW A GENERAL ZONAL FLOW PATTERN ACROSS THE NRN TIER OF STATES THRU NEXT WEEKEND. THE MAIN WX MAKER WILL BE A WEAK COLD FRONT THAT THE AVN PROGS TO MOVE SE INTO THE CWA LATE THU AND FRIDAY. THE GOING FCST HAS TSRA MENTIONED DURING THAT TIME FRAME AND SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE. HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR SATURDAY, SO WELL GO PT CLDY THEN. AS THE HIGH MOVES EAST INTO ONTARIO, WELL PICK UP A RETURN FLOW AHEAD OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE PLAINS. WELL HAVE TO WATCH THE WARM FRONT MOVING BACK NORTH ON SUNDAY. WITH TSRA IN THE FCST BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND, WE SEE NO REASON TO CHANGE THE FCST. 93 .GRR...NONE.
MIZ037>040-043>046-050>052-056>059-064>067-071>074-301100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GRAND RAPIDS MI 700 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF LOWER MICHIGAN FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT... DISPATCHERS...PLEASE NOTIFY YOUR EMERGENCY MANAGERS. HAZARDS... A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE WEATHER EXISTS AGAIN TODAY ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS GREATER THAN 60 MPH AND HAIL GREATER THAN THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH IN DIAMETER ARE POSSIBLE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE...WHICH COULD CAUSE SOME URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING. DISCUSSION... A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM WISCONSIN TODAY WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN TO PRODUCE NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALIZED RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2 TO 3 INCHES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. INDIVIDUAL STORM MOVEMENT WILL BE NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MPH. SPOTTER ACTIVATION... EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE URGED TO MONITOR FORECASTS AND CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION. ...HAZARDOUS WEATHER POTENTIAL STATEMENT FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY... A PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS RETURNS FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. MEADE
The Grand Rapids radar (KGRR), 110 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 12:04 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
One inch hail was reported with an isolated early morning thunderstorm in Reed City (Osceola county).
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