Strong south winds developing in the wake of a thunderstorm complex moving just south of the region caused tree damage in portions of Dickinson County early on the 17th.
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Strong south winds developing in the wake of a thunderstorm complex moving just south of the region caused tree damage in portions of Dickinson County early on the 17th.
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 16, 11:43 PM CST, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 143 AM EDT TUE JUN 17 2014 .SHORT TERM...(THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY) ISSUED AT 358 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 LATEST WATER VAPOR IMAGERY AND RUC ANALYSIS SHOW A SHORTWAVE LIFTING NE THROUGH NEBRASKA/SOUTH DAKOTA WHICH TRIGGERED CONVECTION ACROSS ERN NE EARLIER THIS MORNING AND NOW HAS CONVECTION FOCUSED AT PRESENT OVER ERN SD AND SW MN AT NOSE OF ASSOC 40-45 KT LOW-LVL JET...BEST MLCAPE GRADIENT OF 2500-3000 J/KG AND 700-500 MB LAPSE RATES NEAR 8.5C/KM. HIGHER LAPSE RATES TO 7C/KM FARTHER NORTH ALSO SUPPORTING CLUSTER OF SHRA/ISOLD TSRA OVER NRN MN INTO FAR NRN WI. THIS ACTIVITY MAY SNEAK INTO FAR WRN UPPER MI LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING BRINGING SOME LIGHT SHRA...BUT GENERALLY EXPECT THIS CONVECTION TO WEAKEN AND EVENTUALLY DIE OFF AS IT MOVES AWAY FROM THE BETTER INSTABILITY FARTHER TO THE SOUTH. FCST FOR TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY WILL LARGELY HINGE ON WHAT HAPPENS WITH CONVECTION WHICH HAS FORMED OVER SRN MN THIS AFTERNOON AND WHERE WARM FRONT WILL REMAIN SITUATED INTO TUESDAY. AS FAR AS CONVECTION TONIGHT...WILL LEAN MORE TOWARD A BLEND OF THE 12Z REGIONAL GEM AND GFS AND AWAY FROM THE 12Z NAM WHICH BRINGS STRONGEST CONVECTION TOO FAR NORTH INTO UPPER MI GIVEN MORE SOUTHWARD PLACEMENT OF WARM FRONT. FOLLOWING A BLEND OF THE 12Z REGIONAL GEM AND GFS...WILL CONTINUE ALONG WITH IDEA OF PREV FCST WITH MINOR TWEAKS KEEPING LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL POPS GENERALLY OVER THE SCNTRL AND ERN FCST AREA LATE TONIGHT INTO TUE MORNING WHERE THIS PORTION OF CWA WILL BE ON NRN FRINGE OF MCS ACTIVITY MOVING ACROSS THE MIDWEST. WITH HIGHEST MLCAPES TO NEAR 3000 J/KG AND 700-500 MB LAPSE RATES 8-9C/KM FCST TO STAY WELL SOUTH CLOSER TO WARM FRONT WOULD EXPECT ANY SVR STORMS TO STAY SOUTH OF UPPER MI TONIGHT...MAINLY ALONG AND JUST SOUTH OF WARM FRONT AS DEPICTED ON THE SPC DAY 1 OUTLOOK WHERE THE SLIGHT RISK LINE MAKES IT JUST SLIGHTLY NORTH OF GRB AND WAUSAW. BEST CHC OF TSRA TONIGHT WILL BE OVER SCNTRL UPPER MI CLOSER TO BETTER INSTABILITY AND STEEPER MID-LVL LAPSE RATES. MAY NEED TO WATCH FOR POTENTIAL WAKE LOW DEVELOPMENT LATE TONIGHT AS NRN FRINGE OF MCS MOVES ACROSS SCNTRL AND SE FCST AREA. THIS COULD LEAD TO GUSTY WINDS OVER THESE AREAS IN THE WAKE OF THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX. MODELS SHOW CONVECTION FROM DEVELOPING MCS EXITING THE ERN FCST AREA BY LATE TUE MORNING. MAIN QUESTION FOR TUE WILL BE CHCS FOR AFTERNOON CONVECTION ALONG THE WI BDR. WILL TREND TOWARD DRIER FCST FOR TUE PER REGIONAL GEM AND NAM WHICH KEEPS DEVELOPING AFTERNOON CONVECTION GENERALLY SOUTH OF CWA. SINCE THE 12Z GFS IS THE ONLY MODEL TO BRING THE WARM FRONT NORTH INTO UPPER MI WILL TEND TO SHY AWAY FROM ITS FARTHER NORTH CONVECTIVE DEVELOPMENT. WITH 8H TEMPS IN THE 14-16C...EXPECT INLAND HIGHS IN THE LOWER TO MID 80S INTERIOR WEST/SCNTRL TO UPPER 70S EAST...WITH COOLER 60S TEMPS ALONG THE GREAT LAKES SHORELINES FROM DEVELOPING LAKE BREEZES. .LONG TERM...(TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY) ISSUED AT 326 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 AT THE START OF THE PERIOD...AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BE OVER THE ROCKIES AND NORTHERN QUEBEC...WHILE A WEAK UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL STRETCH FROM THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO LAKE WINNIPEG. AT THE SURFACE...A SURFACE LOW WILL BE LOCATED IN NORTHERN QUEBEC AND ALSO IN THE LEE OF THE ROCKIES...WITH A TROUGH STRETCHING BETWEEN THE TWO LOWS AND THROUGH THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES REGION. TO THE NORTH OF THE TROUGH...A HIGH WILL BE CENTERED OVER WESTERN HUDSON BAY WITH A RIDGE STRETCHING SOUTH TO FAR NORTHERN LAKE SUPERIOR. THE HUDSON BAY HIGH AND SURFACE TROUGH WILL CONTROL MUCH OF THE FORECAST FOR THE MIDDLE/END OF THE WORK WEEK. THE LOCATION OF THE SURFACE TROUGH WILL LIKELY DEPEND ON THE EVOLUTION OF THE MCS MOVING OUT OF SOUTHERN MINNESOTA TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. LATEST TRENDS SEEM TO BE FOR A LITTLE FARTHER SOUTH TRACK THAN SHOWN OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS AND THAT SEEMS REASONABLE. THAT MORE SOUTHERN IDEA WILL LIKELY POSITION THE TROUGH JUST TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND ALLOW DRY NORTHEASTERLY FLOW AROUND THE HUDSON BAY HIGH TO MOVE OVER MUCH OF THE AREA. INDICATIONS ARE FOR ANOTHER SHORTWAVE TO LIFT NORTHEAST ALONG THE SURFACE TROUGH OR DEVELOPING WARM FRONT STRETCHING FROM SIOUX FALLS THROUGH SOUTHERN MN AND INTO CENTRAL/SOUTHERN WISCONSIN ON TUESDAY NIGHT AND KICK OF ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS. WITH THIS BOUNDARY TO THE SOUTH OF THE AREA...FEEL THAT MUCH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL STAY SOUTH OF THE AREA. THUS...WILL CONTINUE TO KEEP THE HIGHEST POPS (LOW END CHANCES) POSITIONED ALONG THE WISCONSIN BORDER AND SLIGHTS OVER THE SOUTHWEST HALF. WITH PROPAGATION VECTORS INDICATING MOVEMENT TO THE SOUTHEAST...WOULD THINK THAT AT MOST WE WOULD ONLY SEE THE NORTHERN EDGE OF THE CONVECTIVELY INDUCED STRATIFORM PRECIP. WITH THE EXPECTATION OF THE BOUNDARY STAYING TO THE SOUTH...THE SURFACE RIDGE FROM THE HUDSON BAY WILL PUSH OVER AT LEAST THE NORTHEAST HALF OF THE CWA AND LEAD TO DRY AND LIGHT NORTHEASTERLY FLOW FOR WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY. WILL FOLLOW THE SAME IDEA AS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AND KEEP THE BEST POPS (LOW CHANCES) RIGHT ALONG THE WISCONSIN BORDER...ALTHOUGH THAT MAY BE OVERDONE (ESPECIALLY SINCE THE WEAK UPPER RIDGE WILL BE SLIDING ACROSS THE UPPER GREAT LAKES). OTHERWISE...SHOULD SEE PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES OR JUST HIGH CLOUDS STREAMING OVER THE AREA DURING THIS TIME. NORTHEASTERLY FLOW OFF LAKE SUPERIOR WILL KEEP HIGHS COOLEST NEAR THE SHORELINE...WITH INLAND VALUES IN THE 70S. UNFORTUNATELY FOR THE EAST...THIS DRIER PERIOD WILL CONTINUE THE DRY CONDITIONS EXPERIENCED OVER THE LAST 30 DAYS (GENERALLY UNDER 50 PERCENT OF NORMAL). THE UPPER TROUGH THAT IS OVER THE ROCKIES TO START THE PERIOD WILL BEGIN TO LIFT INTO THE NORTHERN PLAINS ON THURSDAY AND THEN SLOWLY SHIFT EAST WHILE MERGING WITH THE NEARLY STATIONARY UPPER LOW OVER EASTERN QUEBEC THIS WEEKEND. THIS WILL GRADUALLY INCREASE PRECIPITATION CHANCES THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY FROM WEST TO EAST...AS THE SURFACE LOW MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MINNESOTA. THE CHANCE POPS WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS WEEKEND AS THE WEAKENING SURFACE LOW CONTINUES ITS EASTWARD TRACK. MODEL MUCAPE AND SHOWALTER VALUES SLOWLY DIMINISH AS IT MOVES INTO THE AREA...SO WOULD EXPECT THUNDER CHANCES TO BE LIMITED AND WILL MATCH WITH THE POPS FOR NOW. MODELS DIFFER ON HOW QUICKLY THIS UPPER TROUGH AND SURFACE LOW WILL DEPART THE UPPER GREAT LAKES REGION ON SUNDAY/MONDAY...SO WILL FOLLOW A GENERAL CONSENSUS OF CHANCE/SLIGHT POPS SUNDAY DIMINISHING BY MONDAY. && .AVIATION...(FOR THE 06Z TAFS THROUGH 06Z TUESDAY NIGHT) ISSUED AT 140 AM EDT TUE JUN 17 2014 A LARGE COMPLEX OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN WELL TO THE SOUTH WITH MAINLY JUST LIGHTER SHOWERS BRUSHING UPPER MICHIGAN AS A DISTURBANCE EDGES TOWARD THE AREA OVERNIGHT. SINCE MAINLY JUST LIGHT RAIN IS EXPECTED...CIGS SHOULD REMAIN VFR AT KIWD/KCMX/KSAW THOUGH SOME HIGHER END MVFR CIGS ARE POSSIBLE AROUND SUNRISE AT KSAW. CONFIDENCE THAT ANY HEAVY ENOUGH PCPN WILL DEVELOP TO LOWER CIGS TOWARD IFR IS LOW. WITH DAYTIME HEATING/MIXING...EXPECT ALL TERMINALS TO BE VFR BY LATE MORNING. && .MARINE...(FOR THE 4 PM LAKE SUPERIOR FORECAST ISSUANCE) ISSUED AT 358 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 WEAK PRES GRADIENT SHOULD KEEP WINDS MOSTLY UNDER 20KT THRU TUE. HOWEVER...DEPENDING ON THE TRACK OF A CLUSTER OF SHRA/TSTMS PASSING THRU WI AND AT LEAST PARTS OF UPPER MI LATE TONIGHT/TUE MORNING...THERE MAY BE LOCALLY HIGHER WINDS FOR A TIME LATE TONIGHT/TUE MORNING. FROM LATE TUE THRU FRI...LAKE SUPERIOR WILL BECOME SITUATED BTWN A HUDSON BAY HIGH AND A LOW PRES TROF SLOWLY ADVANCING ACROSS THE PLAINS. THIS WILL RESULT IN EASTERLY WINDS LATER TUE THRU FRI. WHILE WINDS SHOULD GENERALLY BE UNDER 20KT...THIS TYPE OF PATTERN IS FAVORABLE FOR STRONGER WINDS OVER THE WRN PART OF THE LAKE...ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE MN N SHORE DUE TO COASTAL CONVERGENCE/FUNNELING. OTHERWISE...WINDS OVERALL COULD BE STRONGER DEPENDING ON THE STRENGTH OF THE HIGH PRES AND LOW PRES. WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR RAIN TONIGHT AND LINGERING HIGHER DEWPOINTS OVER THE AREA INTO WED...LOOK FOR SOME PATCHY FOG TO REDEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF THE LAKE. && .MQT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... UPPER MICHIGAN... NONE. LAKE SUPERIOR... NONE. LAKE MICHIGAN... NONE. && SHORT TERM...VOSS LONG TERM...SRF AVIATION...JLB MARINE...VOSS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MARQUETTE MI 347 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 MIZ001>007-009>014-084-085-171200- KEWEENAW-ONTONAGON-NORTHERN HOUGHTON-BARAGA-MARQUETTE-ALGER-LUCE- GOGEBIC-IRON-DICKINSON-MENOMINEE-DELTA-SOUTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- SOUTHERN HOUGHTON-NORTHERN SCHOOLCRAFT- 347 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 /247 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN AND CENTRAL UPPER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER WESTERN UPPER MICHIGAN THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST UPPER MICHIGAN TUESDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE NEAR THE WISCONSIN BORDER TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...AND ACROSS MUCH OF UPPER MICHIGAN THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LSZ162-240>251-263>267-171200- 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- 347 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 /247 PM CDT MON JUN 16 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR...CENTRAL LAKE SUPERIOR AND WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER THE WEST HALF OF LAKE SUPERIOR THIS EVENING...AND ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE OVER FAR EASTERN LAKE SUPERIOR TUESDAY MORNING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY WESTERN LAKE SUPERIOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...THEN THE ENTIRE LAKE FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. LMZ221-248-250-171200- 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- 347 PM EDT MON JUN 16 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVERNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE TUESDAY MORNING...THEN AGAIN TUESDAY NIGHT...AND THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... THE NEED FOR WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. SRF
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter reported a 10-inch diameter birch tree and an 18-inch diameter maple tree snapped 12 miles east of Kingsford. Time of the report was based on peak wind gusts to 42 knots observed by the Iron Mountain ASOS.
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