1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Gaylord, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 31, 3:50 AM EST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 450 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2005 .DISCUSSION...SFC MAP AT 04Z SHOWING WARM FRONT POSITIONED FROM SRN MANITOBA THROUGH THE ARROWHEAD OF MN...DOWN THROUGH NE WISCONSIN AND SRN LAKE MICHIGAN. TDS BEHIND THE BOUNDARY IN THE MID/UPR 70S... WHILE TO THE NORTH...LOW-MID 50S WERE COMMON. SFC RIDGE AXIS CENTERED ACROSS SE LOWER...WHERE DRIEST OF AIR RESIDED. LOOKING AT UPPER AIR PLOTS...H8 TDS HAVE INCREASED TO +8C WITH +12C UPSTREAM WHILE TEMPS WERE +12C WITH +17C UPSTREAM. EARLIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE ROOTED AROUND 700MB...AND ACTIVITY DIMINISHED AS IT TRACKED SE INTO THE DRIER/MORE STABLE AIR MASS. SIMILAR ACTIVITY WAS ONGOING ACROSS EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. STRONGER ACTIVITY WAS ONGOING IN SW MANITOBA AND SW ONTARIO ALONG SFC WAVE...WHERE STRONGEST H8 MOISTURE CONVERGENCE/WAA...STEEPER LAPSE RATES RESIDED...AND MUCAPE ABOVE 850MB WAS NEAR 2000J/KG. ACROSS NRN LOWER...MODIFYING THE 00Z APX SOUNDING FOR EXPECTED WARM/MOIST ADVECTIONS IN THE 800-700 LAYER REVEAL 700J/KG WITH NO CAP (BARELY). SYNOPTIC SET UP...NW FLOW HOLDS THROUGH MONDAY...WHILE H5 HEIGHTS DO RISE. THIS WILL ALLOW FOR WARM FRONT TO LIFT FURTHER NORTHWARD INTO THE UPPER GREAT LAKES/STRAITS/SRN ONTARIO REGION BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON./EVENING. WILL RESULT IN WARMER AND MUGGIER AIR TO SETTLE INTO NRN MICHIGAN. TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY...WARM FRONT SHOWING LITTLE CHANGE IN POSITION (MAYBE A TAD FURTHER NORTH)...BEFORE COLD FRONT TO SWING THROUGH HERE THURSDAY NIGHT...DRYING THE ATMOSPHERE OUT BEHIND IT. FORECAST CONCERNS SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY...PRECIP CHANCES AND HOW WARM TEMPS GET IN THE AFTERNOON. TODAY...HAVE DECIDED NOT TO DEVIATE TOO MUCH FROM CURRENT FORECAST OF SLIGHT CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. WILL GO WITH A BIT BETTER CHANCE ACROSS EASTERN UPPER TODAY THOUGH. MODELS OVERDOING THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE...GO FIGURE. A PARCEL OF 85/65 RESULTS IN 1500-1800 J/KG...BUT STILL SHOWING ANYWHERE BETWEEN 40-80J/KG OF CIN. DO NOT SEE ANY MAJOR SOURCE OF LIFT THAT WILL BE ABLE TO INDUCE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...BUT WITH NW FLOW ALOFT AND POTENTIAL MCV DROPPING INTO THE REGION...CANNOT LET GO OF THE SLIGHT CHANCE. THE ADDED CHANCE ACROSS EASTERN UPPER WAS FOR A WEAK SFC TROUGH (ACROSS NW MN AT 02Z) WILL LAY OUT ACROSS EASTERN UPPER LATE THIS AFTERNOON...THIS FEATURE WARRANTED A SLIGHTLY HIGHER POP. BULK SHEAR VALUES ARE IN THE 40-45KT RANGE WITH THE CURRENT ACTIVITY FROM THE STRAITS NORTHWARD...SUGGESTING SOME STORM ORGANIZATION. A FEW OF THE STRONGER CELLS WILL BE ABLE TO PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL. WILL WORD AS SUCH IN THE HWOAPX. TONIGHT...WARM FRONT/TROUGH ROUGHLY ACROSS THE STRAITS REGION AND WITH H5 FLOW REMAINING OUT OF THE NW...WITH HEIGHTS ONLY CREEPING UPWARD OVERNIGHT...SO PATTERN OVERALL DOES NOT APPEAR TO CHANGE TO MUCH. DO NOT SEE MUCH SHORTWAVE ACTIVITY...AND WE APPEAR TO BE IN A PERIOD OF DRYING AT H8 BEHIND THE FRONT. H8-H7 WAA IN THE EVENING DEPARTS EASTWARD SO WE ARE LEFT WITH MINIMAL FORCING. ACTIVITY SHOULD NOT BE CLOSE TO THE COVERAGE WE GET THIS MORNING...SO WILL GO NO HIGHER THAN THE 30% FOCUSED AROUND AFOREMENTIONED WARM FRONT/SFC TROUGH ACROSS THE NRN CWA. MAY NOT BE MUCH AT ALL GOING ON BUT FRONT IN THE VICINITY...ALWAYS HAVE SOME CHANCE FOR PRECIP. MONDAY ONWARD...NO TIME TO LOOK VERY HARD AT THESE PERIODS...BUT NOT MUCH CHANGE SEEN. RIGHT NOW SLIGHT CHANCE SEEMS REASONABLE...BUT LOOKING AT THE SOUNDINGS...THERE WILL BE A STRONGER CAP AS HEIGHTS ALOFT RISE...AND TEMPS WARM FURTHER. WITH ONLY MINIMAL MODIFICATION TO THE SOUNDINGS...LOOKS LIKE THERE IS MORE THAN A HUNDRED J/KG MOST AREAS OF CIN EVEN AT PEAK HEATING. LEAST ACROSS THE SE CWA. WILL HAVE TO LET DAY SHIFT TAKE A LOOK AT THIS BEFORE I START TAKING OUT POPS. WARMING TREND IS ON THE WAY...AND A BIT SOONER. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING LOOK WARM WITH MID 80S TO LOWER 90S...WITH MIDDLE 60S FOR LOWS. SMD && .APX...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GAYLORD MI 525 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2005 MIZ008-015>036-041-042-LSZ321-322-LMZ323-341-342-344-345- LHZ345>349-011000- ALCONA-ALPENA-ANTRIM-ARENAC-BENZIE-CHARLEVOIX-CHEBOYGAN-CHIPPEWA- CRAWFORD-EMMET-GLADWIN-GRAND TRAVERSE-IOSCO-KALKASKA-LEELANAU- MACKINAC-MANISTEE-MISSAUKEE-MONTMORENCY-OGEMAW-OSCODA-OTSEGO- PRESQUE ISLE-ROSCOMMON-WEXFORD...INCLUDING THE ADJACENT WATERS WITHIN FIVE NAUTICAL MILES OF SHORE ON LAKE MICHIGAN...LAKE HURON...AND LAKE SUPERIOR 525 AM EDT SUN JUL 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN LOWER AND EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING...MAINLY IN EASTERN UPPER MICHIGAN. ANOTHER CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR A FEW OF THESE STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY...THEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE AGAIN POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS MORNING INTO THIS EVENING. && MORE INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED AT THE FOLLOWING URL: HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/GAYLORD (ALL LOWER CASE) SMD
The Marquette radar (KMQT), 193 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:21 UTC.
1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Several waves of thunderstorms affect the northern Great Lakes region in the morning. Most were not severe.
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