Thunderstorm Wind, Menominee
- When
- June 23, 6:19 PM CST to 6:21 PM CST
- Where
- Menominee County, Eagles Nest
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 45.180, -87.620
A six to seven-inch diameter tree was uprooted.
Damaging Wind in Michigan, June 23, 2010
An upper level disturbance moving through a moist unstable airmass helped generate an isolated severe thunderstorm just north of Menominee on the evening of the 23rd. Strong winds from the storm uprooted a seven-inch diameter tree.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS MQT wrote it up.
An upper level disturbance moving through a moist unstable airmass helped generate an isolated severe thunderstorm just north of Menominee on the evening of the 23rd. Strong winds from the storm uprooted a seven-inch diameter tree.
What forecasters said that day
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 Marquette, MI wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 23, 2:08 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 2:08 PM CST, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 408 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT AND TOMORROW/... AREAS AWAY FROM THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA RECEIVED A NICE RAIN THIS MORNING. A FEW SPOTS EVEN RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN. AN AUTOMATED RAIN GAUGE NEAR CORNELL PICKED UP OVER 4 INCHES...HOWEVER THIS WAS VERY ISOLATED. THE PLAN IS FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS AS A S/W TROUGH CONTINUES TO SLOWLY PROGRESS THROUGH THE CWA. MLCAPES ARE MARGINAL FOR THUNDER SO KEPT THUNDER CHANCE SLIGHT AND KEPT HIGH POPS ALONG THE WI BORER AND WESTERN ZONES. A SECOND S/W WILL SLIDE THROUGH THIS EVENING...WHICH WARRANTS MAINTAINING THE NEED FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS UNTIL 06Z. INCLUDED PATCHY FOG OVERNIGHT GIVEN AMOUNT OF RAIN RECEIVED TODAY. DRY WEATHER IS EXPECTED THEREAFTER AS LARGE SCALE DRYING TAKES OVER AND 500MB HEIGHTS RISE. SKIES WILL BE GENERALLY SUNNY WITH AFTN CU FORMING GIVEN REMNANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE. .LONG TERM 00Z FRI ONWARD... ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES WITH SHORTWAVES MOVING BY EVERY SO OFTEN WITH A FRONT SOUTH OF THE AREA WHICH WILL BE ENOUGH TO KICK OFF PERIODS OF CONVECTION WITH MCS/S NEARBY. THIS STARTS LATE THU NIGHT AND THEN KEEPS GOING THROUGH SAT. THERE COULD BE SOME DRY PERIODS IN THERE AS WELL AND DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A TOTAL WASHOUT...BUT HARD TO TIME THESE EXACTLY. FOR THIS REASON...WILL BROADBRUSH FOR NOW AND NOT GET FANCY ON THIS. TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER WISE...DID NOT MAKE TOO MANY CHANGES TO THE GOING FORECAST. IN THE EXTENDED...ECMWF...GFS AND CANADIAN ALL SHOW A 500 MB TROUGH OVER THE UPPER GREAT LAKES FOR SUN. RIDGING THEN BUILDS IN FOR MON AND LASTS INTO WED. WITH THE TROUGH IN THE AREA...WILL CONTINUE POPS FOR SUN AND SUN NIGHT AND THEN GO DRY MON THROUGH WED FOR NOW. TEMPERATURES LOOK TO STAY AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THIS PERIOD. FOLLOWED THE MANUAL PROGS FOR THIS FORECAST WHICH WENT CLOSE TO THE UKMET. && .AVIATION /FOR THE 18Z TAF ISSUANCE/... SCATTERED RAIN SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS UPPER MICHIGAN THROUGH THIS EVENING...WITH ONLY A CHANCE OF THUNDER. EXPECT SHOWERS THOUGH TO HOLD OFF AT KSAW UNTIL LATER THIS AFTERNOON. CAN/T RULE OUT TEMPORARY IFR CONDITIONS AT KCMX THIS AFTN IF ANY HEAVIER SHOWERS DO GO THROUGH THE SITE. GIVEN THE RAIN EXPECT FOG DEVELOPMENT LATE TONIGHT...THOUGH ENOUGH SURFACE WIND WILL EXIST TO KEEP VIS FROM GETTING TOO LOW. ATTM HAVE ONLY MVFR POTENTIAL. && .MARINE /FOR THE 4 PM LAKE SUPERIOR FORECAST ISSUANCE/... DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL AN EASTERN PORTIONS OF THE LAKE TONIGHT AND WILL LINGER INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THE EXACT COVERAGE OF THE FOG IS CHALLENGING GIVEN WIDESPREAD CLOUD OVER WHICH LIMITS THE SATELLITE'S VIEW OF THE SURFACE. BASED ON SHIP REPORTS THOUGH IT APPEARS THE DENSE IS GENERALLY EAST OF A LINE FROM THE WESTERN BUOY TO ONTONAGON. WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 KNOTS OUT OF THE NORTHWEST LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY MORNING. AFTER THURSDAY MORNING WINDS WILL DIMINISH BELOW 20 KNOTS AND REMAIN LIGHT THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .MQT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UPPER MICHIGAN... NONE. LAKE SUPERIOR... DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 8 AM EDT THURSDAY FOR LSZ264>267. DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR LSZ263. LAKE MICHIGAN... NONE. && SHORT TERM...PEARSON LONG TERM...07 AVIATION...PEARSON MARINE...PEARSON
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 1:56 PM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 356 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-241200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 356 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 /256 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT EXPECT A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE KEWEENAW PENINSULA LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-241200- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF A LINE FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO GRAND PORTAGE MN BEYOND 5NM-SAXON HARBOR WI TO BLACK RIVER MI- BLACK RIVER TO ONTONAGON MI- ONTONAGON TO UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- UPPER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO EAGLE RIVER MI- EAGLE RIVER TO MANITOU ISLAND MI- MANITOU ISLAND TO POINT ISABELLE MI- POINT ISABELLE TO LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL MI- LOWER ENTRANCE OF PORTAGE CANAL TO HURON ISLANDS MI INCLUDING KEWEENAW AND HURON BAYS-HURON ISLANDS TO MARQUETTE MI- MARQUETTE TO MUNISING MI-MUNISING TO GRAND MARAIS MI- GRAND MARAIS TO WHITEFISH POINT MI- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM SAXON HARBOR WI TO UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER INCLUDING ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM UPPER ENTRANCE TO PORTAGE CANAL TO MANITOU ISLAND MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- LAKE SUPERIOR WEST OF LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR EAST OF A LINE FROM MANITOU ISLAND TO MARQUETTE MI AND WEST OF A LINE FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER BEYOND 5NM FROM SHORE- LAKE SUPERIOR FROM GRAND MARAIS MI TO WHITEFISH POINT MI 5NM OFF SHORE TO THE US/CANADIAN BORDER- 356 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 /256 PM CDT WED JUN 23 2010/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL CONTINUE ACROSS LAKE SUPERIOR BEFORE GRADUALLY DISSIPATING LATE TONIGHT. SEE THE LATEST MARINE WEATHER MESSAGE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR LATE THURSDAY NIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-241200- GREEN BAY NORTH OF LINE FROM CEDAR RIVER MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE-SEUL CHOIX POINT TO POINT DETOUR MI- 5NM EAST OF A LINE FROM FAIRPORT MI TO ROCK ISLAND PASSAGE- 356 PM EDT WED JUN 23 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. AREAS OF FOG WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. 07
The radar
The Green Bay radar (KGRB), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:16 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Illinois, June 23, 2010
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, June 23, 2010
- Excessive Heat in Maryland, June 23 to 24, 2010
- Heat in Arizona, June 23 to 30, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 23 to 24, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 23, 2010
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 23, 2010
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, June 23, 2010
- Flash Flood and Wildfire in New Mexico, June 23 to 26, 2010
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 23, 2010
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 23, 2010
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 23, 2010
More
Every storm in Michigan in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Michigan, June 2010
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 244925.